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Looking at the help for PHP Composer's install command, I see the following two options $ composer help install Options: --prefer-source Forces installation from package sources when possible, including VCS information. --prefer-dist Forces installation from package dist even for dev versions. What's a "dist" installation? I poked around the composer site and Google but there didn't seem to be anything that addressed this (So I assume it's something core and obvious to folks familiar with Composer — apologies for the newbie question) I'm assuming --prefer-source is where Composer will ask Packagist for the repository location, and then checkout/clone/export/etc. the project itself. If so, then where does --prefer-dist download from? What does it download?
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