Slow updating of composer dependencies, despite --prefer-dist flag

Question

Why does it take up to two minutes for my composer dependencies to update, even when there have been no changes?

A popular suggestion is to append the --prefer-

Answer 1

MY SOLUTION WINDOWS 10 x 64 bits WAMP user with Laravel, after weeks of slow composer update and composer require

you use need a thing called cacert.pem

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html

then paste that file in your wamp main directory C:\wamp64\cacert.pem

then in the search tab search for php.ini open all the files with that name on sublime or any text editor

find a line called curl.cainfo and openssl.cafile

PUT YOUR PATH TO THIS FILE - see the example on my case:

curl.cainfo="C:\wamp64\cacert.pem"

and

openssl.cafile="C:\wamp64\cacert.pem"

do this on all the php.ini files you search before, in all the files!

OKAY RESTART SERVER that work for me, hope for you I wish someone before would make this comment! so I would not spend 2 weeks fixing it

also call

composer config --global repo.packagist composer https://packagist.org

this make the connection on https run this too

composer install --prefer-dist -vvv --profile