Packs could add both to "require" and "require-dev"

[nicolas-grekas]

Right now, a pack can only be added to "require" xor "require-dev".
It could be great to be able to have a pack add things to both "require" and "require-dev" with a single composer require my-pack.

[stof]

Well, if we keep packs as composer (meta-)packages in the solver, that's impossible (as require-dev is root-only). You would need 2 packages, one in require and another one in require-dev (both of them using require)

[nicolas-grekas]

Yep, I have a proposal to work around this:

Inside a pack, listing a package twice, both in "require" and in "require-dev" (with a * requirement in "require-dev") could be the convention we'd use to make this work seamlessly.

Unpacking would use this convention to work. When not-unpacking, these deps would be considered part of "require" so there would be a slight difference in the exact meaning, but maybe that's good enough?

[weaverryan]

This is one of the most consistent complaints about Flex. It would indeed be awesome to solve - the debug-pack is a particular problem :)