Composer: How to remove #StandWithUkraine cli message?

Question

Regardless of personal political opinions, how would one opt out of the https://repo.packagist.org message:

Info from https://repo.packagist.org: #StandWithUkraine

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I try to keep the answer as neutral as possible. There used to be a very lively discussion on GitHub, which was censored/deleted by the team without warning.

There are a few options to remove the message:

1. Configure a non political repository (by https://github.com/xieyuheng)

choose from https://packagist.org/mirrors, for example this Chinese server:

composer config -g repos.packagist composer https://mirrors.tencent.com/composer/

2. Create an alias to remove the message on your cli (by https://github.com/ludo237 and others)

On mac OS for me this one worked (saved inside the ~/.zshrc):

alias composer="2> >(grep -av 'StandWith') composer --ansi "

It is not ideal, as it eats the eats the interactive bits, but is is most of the time pretty functioning.

3. Create a patched version of Composer (by https://github.com/politsin)

git clone https://github.com/composer/composer.git  ~/composer-build && \
    composer install  -o -d ~/composer-build && \
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/politsin/snipets/master/patch/composer.patch -q -O ~/composer-build/composer.patch  && \
    cd ~/composer-build && patch -p1 < composer.patch && \
    php -d phar.readonly=0 bin/compile && \
    rm /usr/local/bin/composer && \
    php composer.phar install && \
    php composer.phar update && \
    mv ~/composer-build/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer && \
    rm -rf ~/composer-build  && \
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

History

https://github.com/Seldaek the main driver of Composer and Packagist mentioned here, why he removed the original discussion.

Answer 2

The message was removed from the solution.

This message has been here for a long time now and I do not think it is having any effect anymore as every user has seen it many times. Removing it so I do not have to spend so much time and energy on tickets debating it anymore.

- Seldaek (committed 2023-10-11T10:12:37Z).

Source: composer/packagist@d394c8d at main - GitHub

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