Remove drupal/drupal as a dependency

[cweagans]

We're using composer for a d8 project internally, and we're pulling in just the core directory through composer. This is so that we have full control over the contents of the webroot (and so that we can have our own autoload.php). As of now, if I try to pull in the d8 version of the focal_point module, composer tries to pull in drupal/drupal, and that's not the desired behavior.

Alternatively, do you have a different way that you can recommend to manage a d8 codebase with composer?

[davidbarratt]

drupal/core should really be the dependency now for D8. :/

[cweagans]

I 100% agree. Is there a clear path forward to change that? If you can get me pointed in the right direction, I have work time that I can spend on it.

[derhasi]

You can use "replace" in your composer.json to workaround that.

For the Drupal Packagist to change all dependencies to drupal/core we would need to adjust the dependency creation process in https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-parse-composer .

[webflo]

I talked with @tstoeckler about the dependency issue a few weeks ago. After a long discussion about the pros and cons we agreed to change the dependency to drupal/core for D8 Modules.

[webflo]

@cweagans Use use a custom package definition to override the default. Here is a working example: https://github.com/webflo/drupal-site-template/blob/metapackage-example/composer.json

[webflo]

@cweagans We need to change the logic in https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-parse-composer/blob/master/src/InfoFile.php#L170

[webflo]

Deployed the change a few days ago. New D8 Modules should show up with drupal/core.