# Add theme dependencies in specification

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-theme-dependencies-in-specification/81816>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 28, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-theme-dependencies-in-specification/81816 "2018-02-28T19:19:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-theme-dependencies-in-specification/81816/1 "2018-02-28T19:19:19Z")

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> As a Discourse theme author, I want to be able to specify child/component themes that are required for my theme to work correctly, so the user (Discourse site admin) doesn’t have to manually go out and add/configure it.

We are working on a downstream theme to work alongside the Mozilla theme (thanks @LeoMcA!) but it’d be nice if we didn’t have to manually specify import their theme and manually link them. Could such a relationship be added to the **about.json** file?

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