[RRFC] npm deprecate multiple packages

[ruyadorno]

Motivation ("The Why")

Currently npm deprecate can only handle one package at a time, and only through a <pkg>@<version> syntax. Given the work towards providing better workspaces workflows, it's very likely going to be an important feature tu support with more folks managing multiple packages from a single place.

Example

Some possible alternative syntaxes we might to consider supporting:

npm deprecate (no args? deprecates the current version of the current package?)
npm deprecate foo@1.0.0 bar@1.2.3 baz@2.0.0
npm deprecate --workspaces (same as no args but for all workspace packages?)

References

• Spawned by the discussions during the workspaces implementation over at the cli repo: WIP: feat(workspaces): update configs cli#2836 (comment)

[ljharb]

npm deprecate is a potentially destructive command, so it seems safer not to support it with no args, but using explicit specifiers seems fine, and with explicit workspaces.

It's probably safer to not implicitly deprecate an entire repo when no args are provided.