How are Symfony services private by default?

Question

From the official release , Symfony services are private by default. But when I run debug command on my Symfony-4.4 container:

bin/console debug:container

It still lists a lot of Symfony framework built-in services as public .

Does this private/public feature not apply to command line operations?

Answer 1

The debug:container command for example hides the private services by default, so it's no longer useful to list the services available in your application. That's why in Symfony 4.1 we've changed the debug:container command to show the private services by default and we've also deprecated the --show-private option. See https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-4-1-hidden-services