Prompt users to use --dev flag for development-only packages #407
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This PR introduces a mechanism to significantly improve the developer experience by guiding users to correctly place development-only dependencies into the require-dev block. When a package is internally tagged with the new "dev" keyword, and a user attempts to install it using composer require without the --dev flag, Composer will now intelligently prompt them: ``` The package you required is recommended to be placed in require-dev (because it is tagged as "testing") but you did not use --dev. Do you want to re-run the command with --dev? [yes]? ```
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This PR introduces a mechanism to significantly improve the developer experience by guiding users to correctly place development-only dependencies into the require-dev block. When a package is internally tagged with the new "dev" keyword, and a user attempts to install it using composer require without the --dev flag, Composer will now intelligently prompt them: