Create Dependency Dashboard only for repos with dependencies

[sebthom]

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We configured Renovatebot to automatically discover and onboard all repositories within certain organizations using requireConfig: optional.

Currently, Renovatebot generates dependency dashboards for every repository, regardless of whether it contains any manageable dependencies.

It would be beneficial if there were an option to configure Renovatebot to create dependency dashboards only in repositories where it actually finds manageable dependencies. This way we would not have empty dependency dashboards in repos without dependencies and we could still keep using auto-discovery of repos.

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Empty dashboard issue created for repo without any discoverable dependencies:

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[sebthom]

I don't think logs make any sense regarding this feature request.

[rarkins]

You're wrong

[rarkins]

I spent time to try to reproduce this behavior, but no dashboard issue was even created. Hence I asked you for logs to see what config you have and how it's behaving. By refusing logs, the time I spent was wasted.