Flex: Add the ability to sync the recipe of a single package

[tsantos84]

Currently sync-recipes syncs all packages that have recipes and can be dangerous if I need to sync only one recipe. A useful improvement would be sync a single recipe so we can have more control in what are being updated. To support that, a separated command to list all packages configured by recipes could be added in this feature, like this:

composer recipe:list which would print:

• symfony/console [oficial]
• symfony/validator [oficial]
• tsantos/serializer-bundle [contrib]

and now is possible to sync one or more package:

composer sync-recipes symfony/console tsantos/serializer-bundle

The same above command could be renamed to:

composer recipe:sync symfony/console tsantos/serializer-bundle

I'm not sure if this command should list packages names or recipes names.

Following this way, we could have a namespace called recipe to hold all commands related to recipes.

• recipe:list
• recipe:sync
• recipe:fix

[Pierstoval]

Why would one need composer recipe:list when you can just see this in symfony.lock quite clearly?

[keichinger]

@Pierstoval it's way more convenient and could also be used for some statistics/analytics that are gathered by your CI. You could make the same argument about almost any other console command.

[tsantos84]

As @Pierstoval said, it's better to run a command and see the list of recipes rather than open the symfomy.lock file.

[nicolas-grekas]

I wouldn't change the existing names as that's a too hard road for existing teaching materials, e.g. documentation, slides, tutorials.
But having a --dry-run option would be great, and being able to specify a list of packages on the existing command too.

[tsantos84]

What about to keep the original name as alias to the new ones?

[nicolas-grekas]

The new names would need to be significantly better, but I'm not sure they are personally :)

[maxhelias]

Look at the RFC #518 your need is listed