I have lots of love for the npm team, but the CLI tool is and has been performing sub-par for a good while now :(pic.twitter.com/qu6xTqcw8c
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imo this should be patched on the @npm cli, surely there's a way to do it in some sort of segmented fashion?
I also recall the error being somewhat unfriendly/uninformative
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