Error after installing plugin

[WebVPF]

After installing via composer plugin User does not install other plugins via composer.
When trying to install a new plugin, an error appears in the console, and new plugin is not installed because of this. The error refers to User plugin.

[bennothommo]

@WebVPF please post the error message.

[WebVPF]

I thought it was just my problem, but I saw a comment:
cdf262f#commitcomment-55798835

[WebVPF]

@bennothommo here is a screenshot of the error:

[LukeTowers]

@bennothommo ah, I see why this is an issue now. The packagist package itself pulled in via winter/wn-user-plugin reports that it replaces rainlab/user-plugin, but then composer-merge-plugin makes it so that the already installed winter plugin includes its replace property in the root composer.json file. Simple enough fix in theory (maybe some other edge cases though), we just tell the composer merge plugin to not merge in the replace property

[WebVPF]

The User plugin itself is installed. After installation php artisan winter: up command runs without errors.
But after that, other plugins are not installed through the composer and an error appears.

[LukeTowers]

@WebVPF if you have no need of the composer-merge-plugin in your project (i.e. you don't develop plugins locally in your project with their own composer.json files), then you can just remove it entirely and that will solve your issue.

[mjauvin]

Not sure if I'm missing somthing here, but if I add the "replace" option back into the winter plugins composer files, this behavior is not triggered anymore. I can successfully install offline/oc-mall-plugin and it will honor the installed winter plugins (instead of forcing rainlab plugins). After that, I tried adding more plugins with composer and had no issue as previously described.

[mjauvin]

nah, still the same issue.