Composer installation incomplete

[egeloen]

Hey,

I have followed the tutorial explaining how to install mink with composer available here. So, my composer.json looks like:

{
    "name": "symfony/framework-standard-edition",
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": { "": "src/" }
    },
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.2",
        "symfony/symfony": "2.1.*",
        "doctrine/orm": "2.2.0",
        "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "dev-master",
        "twig/extensions": "dev-master",
        "symfony/assetic-bundle": "dev-master",
        "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "dev-master",
        "symfony/monolog-bundle": "dev-master",
        "sensio/distribution-bundle": "dev-master",
        "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "dev-master",
        "sensio/generator-bundle": "dev-master",
        "jms/security-extra-bundle": "dev-master",

        "behat/behat-bundle": "dev-master",
        "behat/mink-bundle": "dev-master"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
            "Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "bin-dir": "bin"
    },
    "extra": {
        "symfony-app-dir": "app",
        "symfony-web-dir": "web"
    },
    "repositories": {
        "behat/mink-deps": {
            "type": "composer",
            "url": "behat.org"
        }
    }
}

All works fine excepts the recommend section is not installed. According to the composer documentation, this section is by default installed. Someone can explain me what is wrong ?

[stof]

Currently, Composer installs the recommendations of the root package by default but not the recommendations of the deps. This is still missing in the solver.

[egeloen]

It seems that a lot of features only works in the root package. I hope the solver will evolve on this way! Btw, thanks !

[stof]

@egeloen allowing scripts only on the root is not a technical limitation of the solver. There is 2 reasons:

• a choice: allowing scripts in any package would remove the control from the user as it would let any package execute arbitrary code on your computer (which could be an issue if it is a deep deps and the end-user is not aware of what it will execute)
• a technical reason: for all hooks running before the end of the installation, the running hooks would be hard to predict as hooks registered by pending installations cannot be executed for previous packages.

[egeloen]

Thanks for your explanation !