How to remove obsolete, unused modules?

What does not work about composer remove? https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#remove-rm

Hi Gábor,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Here is an example of the output when I tried to remove contentimport:

drupal/contentimport is not required in your composer.json and has not been removed
./composer.json has been updated
Running composer update drupal/contentimport
Loading composer repositories with package information
Package "drupal/contentimport" listed for update is not locked.
Updating dependencies
Nothing to modify in lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Nothing to install, update or remove

Here is what Upgrade Status says:

Content Import (contentimport) Contributed module Uninstalled 8.x-9.3 Incompatible N/A Up to date Incompatible Issues N/A

I find composer to be very confusing, especially since it was installed while upgrading from 8 so might have old entries from the legacy project template. Not sure what the next step here would be. It would be great to have some guidance in the documentation.

Thanks,
-Chris

I was able to do the upgrade my going in to the modules/ and themes/ directories and using the rm command to remove the uninstalled modules and themes. Perhaps the documentation could include this step?

Trying to update activitytracker results in this:

- drupal/tracker dev-1.0.x requires drupal/core ^8 -> found drupal/core[8.0.0-beta6, ..., 8.9.x-dev] but these were not loaded, likely because it conflicts with another require.

Not sure why version 8 is still there, as mentioned above.

Thanks,
-Chris

The tricky thing about drupal/contentimport is I think it only had releases that have since been marked unsupported, so it does not show up in composer anymore. That's an interesting case, hm.

Re activitytracker, that is not a project, tracker is, as shown in the error message: drupal/tracker. Why do you want to remove that?