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Add support for build tool manifest files as proxies for packages
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Description
### Description
The presence of a build manifest/script (such as a Makefile, a gradle script, a BUCK or BUILD file, etc.) can be a good proxy for the presence of a package and could be used as a way to group files together as a virtual package.
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