we have an production site where we use the access plugin to let some admin's do minor jobs and others bigger... kind of not all admins are made equal... 🙂 But we can't get automatic updates just for the Access plugin alone. We need to install wp-types while we don't use it. While we like to keep the site plug-in wise as slim as possible i like to know: Is there a way around this?
The installer/registration code is shipped only with Types, the presumption being that any Toolset project starts with Types, so registration for automatic updates is only possible when Types is active.
There isn't workaround that doesn't involve the presence of Types, because that's where the relevant code resides.
I have proposed it be possible to register individual plugins without Types as a feature request. It's not too difficult in theory, but it does imply shipping duplicate code with each plugin.
If accepted it would likely be a while before it could be implemented, so keep an eye on the plugin release notes.