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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Add 'recipe' project type to Backdrop
@yorkshirepudding thank you for the additional info on improving discoverability and a handy way to keep a list of projects for reuse.
Why not add a Github star?
It is a good point @izmeez and when I was researching repo discoverability I found that GitHub search does prioritise matches with more stars. This is what I was researching for:...
Why not add a Github star?