Requirement of `composer/composer` actually needed?

[boesing]

I wonder if the requirement of composer/composer is actually needed.

Can we drop composer/composer from require section of composer?

I would really love to have composer/composer removed as a dependency here. I haven't scraped the code yet but from what I know is that having composer/composer as a dependency is not recommended.

Is there a reason on why that has to be a requirement? The runtime-API is usually the way to go I'd say.
Maybe having composer/composer as a dev-dependency for certain tests might be helpful as well but besides that, I do not expect composer/composer to be around. But maybe I miss something here?

Example code

conventional-commits/composer.json

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	"require": {
	"php": "^8.1",
	"ext-json": "*",
	"composer-runtime-api": "^2.0",
	"composer/composer": "^2.4",