[Bug] Asset symlinks are not removed when removing packages

[javiereguiluz]

How to reproduce:

1. $ composer req admin
2. web/bundles/easyadmin symlink is created pointing at ../vendor/[...]/public/
3. $ composer rem admin
4. web/bundles/easyadmin symlink still exists

[fabpot]

That's probably because when you uninstalled easyadmin, it also uninstalled symfony/cli (as it was installed via easyadmin), so the assets:install task couldn't run. Not sure what we can do.

[fabpot]

Closing as there is nothing we can do to fix this one.

[stof]

@fabpot assets:install does not delete existing symlinks/folders if the corresponding bundle does not provide assets anymore. It does not clean the existing content of the file for unnecessary bundle folders.

[stof]

see symfony/demo#588 where I had to do a cleanup manually (it required doing a rm -rf web/bundles before running assets:install to have the clean state)

[fabpot]

So, that's a bug that needs to be reported on symfony/symfony. That's not related to Flex.

[stof]

@fabpot I created the issue on the symfony repo