I'm currently working on a custom storefront design for a Magento 2 store and I'm trying to implement a theme which does not inherit from a base theme and where I can define my own page_layout files without having to extend anything. For example, currently Magento uses the following chain of inheritance with its layouts... empty.xml -> 1_column.xml -> 2_columns.xml etc.
What I want to achieve is to completely override the empty.xml so I can define my own layout starting with the root container. As it stands, I have managed to get my own empty.xml layout to appear in the backend and set it as a layout for pages, however, it'll error out alerting me to having multiple elements of the same name within the layout (in this case, it's content). This tells me that I am not overriding properly.
I have tried adding my declarations at the following directories...
app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<module>/layout/override/base/empty.xml
app/design/frontend/<vendor>/<module>/Magento_Theme/page_layout/empty.xml
I have had no luck with either.
I have no reason to believe this is an unreasonable approach to developing a custom front and any help would be greatly appreciated.
