RFC: Proposal for configurable way to npm install only the desired files from npm modules

[Emuentes]

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[ljharb]

Combined with a way for package authors to specify which files are needed for production, or not.

[dominykas]

Aren't this and #209 essentially duplicates? It all starts with a definition, and the definition can be worded as the RFC? Which can then have two parallel implementation paths - cleaning as part of npm prune (already works for dev deps, so only needs to be extended for files) and not installing as npm install in the first place (but presumably only when run as --production)?

[ljharb]

This is different from dev/prod - you’d want dev deps installed, but with minimal files.

[dominykas]

Sure, the setting to prune the deps to prod-only deps should not be the same setting to prune the files to prod-only files, but I believe this can still be implemented as a flag for both - prune and install.

We've learnt that mistake with npm-shrinkwrap and package-lock controlled by the same setting...