Merge pull request #9321 from stof/patch-1

Enhance the doc about provide to reduce mistakes
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Jordi Boggiano 4 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -442,9 +442,15 @@ that exact version, and not any other version, which would be incorrect.
#### provide
List of other packages that are provided by this package. This is mostly
useful for common interfaces. A package could depend on some virtual
`logger` package, any library that implements this logger interface would
simply list it in `provide`.
useful for implementations of common interfaces. A package could depend on
some virtual `logger-implementation` package, any library that implements
this logger interface would simply list it in `provide`.
Using `provide` with the name of an actual package rather than a virtual one
implies that the code of that package is also shipped, in which case `replace`
is generally a better choice. A common convention for packages providing an
interface and relying on other packages to provide an implementation (for
instance the PSR interfaces) is to use a `-implementation` suffix for the
name of the virtual package corresponding to the interface package.
#### suggest

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