Install profiles can define dependencies: modules that are required before the profile can be installed (see https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/creating-distributions/how-to-write-a-drup...). I'd like to suggest allowing dependencies to cover other types or projects as well (e.g. themes and layouts).
Related issues: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/3924
GitHub Issue #:
3926
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Worth mentioning as it was in zulip chat by @yorkshirepudding I just tested and the two work together without issue as long as you don't use the "Exclude comments from Content...
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There is also Node Comments Search - this searches the node and all comments (default search is node and first page of comments) as part of the content search. Izzy's module above is a separate...
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I have created a new module comment_search
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