[themes] theme dependencies

[David Landry]

It's bad practice for themes to have module dependencies like that. There is
no centralized standard for tracking modules that a theme depends on. You'll
have to go through the entire theme looking for references to modules.

If you want to be kind to the next person who has to maintain the site, you
could break out any template code that has module dependency as a custom
module or Feature, so that the module dependencies can be declared.

David Landry

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Bert Van Kets <mailing at vankets.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> is there any easy way to know what modules a theme is depending on?
> I have a theme from a Drupal 6 site with a multitude of installed
> modules. When I use the theme on a plain vanilla Drupal install a blank
> page is installed.
> I really do not want to go through all the tpl files to see what modules
> are referenced. How is a problem like this tackled?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bert
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