This Composer plugin allows you to remove paths (files and/or directories) while installing or updating packages, so you can remove unwanted files from your project, eg. before deploying to production.
Simply install the plugin with composer: composer require ruuds/composer-remove-paths
For configuring the paths you need to set remove-paths within the extra of your root composer.json.
{
"extra": {
"remove-paths": [
"htdocs/robots.txt",
"htdocs/directory-to-remove"
]
}
}