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You're not actually downloading the package from Packagist. It acts only as a metadata repository that points you to a source repository. For the others, I woul
by jadell 10y ago
You're not actually downloading the package from Packagist. It acts only as a metadata repository that points you to a source repository. For the others, I would assume they act as both a metadata and a source repository.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoThanks for the clarification. I'm shocked it is the only one like that.
- mfer 10y agoIt takes a bit of work to store versions and manage them as a central repo. Composer will fetch the sources, as a tarball from GitHub if possible, and cache them locally. They are skipping being the central store and deferring to root sources. They removed a lot of complexity by doing that and I bet more than a few people didn't notice.