Is there an easy way to list the packages and bundles in Packs?

[nbro]

I thought of using the flag --dry-run (i.e. composer require symfony/serializer-pack --dry-run), but this doesn't work e.g. when you've already installed the pack.

[Trismegiste]

Packages listing

To list all of the available packages, you can use the show command.

$ composer show

More on https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#show-info

[MatTheCat]

Note that since packs are automatically unpacked you need the --available flag. Plus, using jq you can show dependencies only:

$ composer show --available --format=json symfony/serializer-pack | jq '.["requires"]'
{
  "phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock": "*",
  "phpstan/phpdoc-parser": "*",
  "symfony/property-access": "*",
  "symfony/property-info": "*",
  "symfony/serializer": "*"
}

[nbro]

Yes, I knew we could use composer show, but using that alone is not what I needed.

composer show --available symfony/serializer-pack is fine because it contains the info I need, although it contains a lot more info than I need. I don't want to install jq now. But could this feature then be integrated in composer? I suppose yes.