[WIP] chore: Deprecate singular auth-type config values

[jumoel]

What

Add the ability to deprecate single values for options, instead of just whole options.

Why

Allows for instance the --auth-type configuration option to have non-deprecated as well as deprecated values.

References

• https://github.com/github/npm/issues/5542
• [WIP] feat: Add ability to deprecate singular config values config#68

[npm-cli-bot]

no statistically significant performance changes detected

timing results

app-large	clean	lock-only	cache-only	cache-only peer-deps	modules-only	no-lock	no-cache	no-modules	no-clean	no-clean audit
npm@8	33.158 ±3.17	16.021 ±0.06	14.090 ±0.03	16.470 ±0.67	2.513 ±0.01	2.510 ±0.02	2.073 ±0.06	9.789 ±0.05	2.007 ±0.01	3.216 ±0.34
#5115	33.336 ±2.73	15.994 ±0.07	14.192 ±0.08	16.931 ±0.88	2.535 ±0.05	2.518 ±0.01	2.063 ±0.01	9.843 ±0.05	2.033 ±0.02	3.118 ±0.21

app-medium	clean	lock-only	cache-only	cache-only peer-deps	modules-only	no-lock	no-cache	no-modules	no-clean	no-clean audit
npm@8	22.438 ±0.47	11.959 ±0.05	10.715 ±0.10	11.572 ±0.58	2.373 ±0.01	2.316 ±0.00	2.062 ±0.01	7.186 ±0.00	1.962 ±0.00	2.682 ±0.02
#5115	24.455 ±0.18	12.034 ±0.12	10.599 ±0.10	11.629 ±0.23	2.334 ±0.01	2.320 ±0.01	2.049 ±0.00	7.308 ±0.20	1.951 ±0.02	2.730 ±0.03

[wraithgar]

Superceded by #5149