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I want to avoid using hook_install() so I can install from configuration.

I'd like my install profile to use seven for the admin theme, and my custom theme rutherford for the default/main frontend theme.

The annotated *.info.yml example on Drupal.org suggests that putting the following will install my themes:

# List any themes that should be installed as part of the profile installation.
# Note that this will not set any theme as the default theme.
themes:
  - rutherford
  - seven

My understanding of CMI is that I can then create a file called www/profiles/rocket/config/optional/system.theme.yml and put this in it to enable my themes:

admin: seven
default: rutherford

However none of this seems to work? My themes are found, but not installed or enabled:

The Drupal themes interface showing Rutherford and Seven as listed but not installed and not enabled

Edit:

I've just noticed that the themes are set as default and admin, they're just not installed:

Rutherford is listed with (default theme) next to it, and Seven wigth (administration theme) but neither are installed

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  • I noticed that Lightning does this with a .profile file but I'd rather keep everything in config if possible, so that it's easier for colleagues (and future me) to find where different config settings are set.
    – Phil Wolstenholme
    Sep 17, 2019 at 10:54
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    You can't be far off, that's exactly the same method the "standard" profile uses. The only difference is system.theme.yml is located in "config/install", not "config/optional" in core. Maybe that's the smoking gun
    – Clive ♦
    Sep 17, 2019 at 11:09
  • @Clive Unfortunately I have the same problem if I put the theme config in www/profiles/rocket/config/install/system.theme.yml. I've based my profile off Standard but it seems to behave differently, for example copying the block.block.seven_breadcrumbs from www/core/profiles/standard/config/install/block.block.seven_breadcrumbs.yml and putting it in my profile's config/install directory gives me a UnmetDependencyException without fail, whereas Standard seems to get away with it somehow!
    – Phil Wolstenholme
    Sep 17, 2019 at 11:19
  • Just updated my post to show that the themes are listed as being set as the default and admin themes, they just don't seem to be installed.
    – Phil Wolstenholme
    Sep 17, 2019 at 11:27
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    Yeah I just checked some of my profiles, I'm using the theme installer manually in hook_install to get my themes installed too. Can't remember why, but I definitely would've tried to do it config first (my thought process is very similar to yours). Maybe there's a bug
    – Clive ♦
    Sep 17, 2019 at 11:30

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Ah 🤦‍♂️. Trying to install my rutherford theme via the web UI gave a The rutherford theme was not found. error message, so it seemed the theme was at fault, not the profile.

I inspected my theme's info file and realised it had a dependency which was not being met. Commenting out the dependency got everything working again!

It's a shame that the php www/core/scripts/drupal quick-start rocket did not give me any errors about this unmet theme dependency, otherwise I would have saved about six hours of trying various different configuration approaches! Ah well, ce la Drupal!

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