As well as Pathauto, it's downloading its dependencies - ctools and pathauto.
Instead of downloading three modules, we can do it with one command.
In fact, we don't need to know what its dependencies are - Composer will do that.
Also, updating the modules is just another simple command - composer update.
While it may be intimidating to non-technical users, learning a few simple commands makes installing and updating modules much easier!
- Oliver
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