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

I found this answer here,

1. Manually remove the package from composer.json.
2. Manually delete vendor folder.
3. Run composer install (from inside your project folder).

Composer re-installs the packages listed in composer.json.