Inheriting common dependencies from parent project in child projects

My project is configured that way but I am making a lot of changes to my build.gradle file today, so that all projects aren’t sharing the same build.gradle file, and so you might want to look at the January 22nd version of my root projects build.gradle file. https://github.com/djangofan/WebDriverTestingTemplate

NOTE: By the way, if any Gradle experts out there look at my build.gradle files and see anything that can be improved, PLEASE let me know.

It has been rough going so far but slowly learning.