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Inherited members that inherit their documentation should not appear in search dropdownΒ #3411

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If I search for "computeDryLayout" in Flutter's API docs:

https://master-api.flutter.dev/flutter/search.html?q=computeDryLayout

There's dozens of results, but basically all of them are just redundantly repeating the same content as the first one, because they're just subclasses overriding the method to implement it, and thus inheriting the documentation. If we want to argue that having the list of implementations of this method available is useful, then we should put that list in the documentation for the one they're all inheriting from:

https://master-api.flutter.dev/flutter/rendering/RenderBox/computeDryLayout.html

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