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Historically people have set up custom data types for cases like this, and is just the sort of problem that was trying to be solved when custom data types were...

Your opinion was in fact very informed, and from a very valuable perspective. Please do consider submitting a PR for this. I for one would look forward to it.

Those are all namespaced somewhere why do we need them collected?

I'm having trouble finding any comments in here that show how to reproduce this. A lot reference package.json files but don't specify what's in them. For starters, the package specs...

How did you create that package-lock @ariofrio it very much does have the same root cause there. It's got `"version": "file:dependency"` as the version for the workspace

ref: https://github.com/npm/statusboard/issues/486

We got our wires crossed and duplicated this effort in https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/5347

What is `fs-extra` providing that `https://github.com/npm/fs` isn't?

> * Is this a polyfil / monkey patch? Should I require fs or @npmcli/fs It's a polyfill. Good examples of how we are using it are in [cacache](https://github.com/npm/cacache/blob/e348817464a1be4909aca6d03ca12d583ab2b8b6/lib/util/tmp.js) >...

> Is that something you'll work on or should I start a PR? Please start a PR. It's not something we'd be able to get to internally for some time.