Composer: remove a package, clean up dependencies, don't update other packages

Question

The situation

Let\'s say I have a project with two packages installed by Composer:

php composer.phar require \'squizlabs/php_codesniffer:~2.0\' \'phpmd         


        

Answer 1

Do this:

php composer.phar remove phpmd/phpmd

Modify the composer.json file so it contains the following require section.

{
    "require": {
        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "2.0.*",
    }
}

Now run composer.phar update. That should get you where you want to be.

Note: You could also pin the php_codesniffer package to a specific version e.g. 2.0.0. More information about how composer does versioning can be found on here.