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AI-generatedpnpm Workspaces & Private Flag: Should Workspace Root Privacy Implicitly Apply to Nested Packages?
Problem Context The private field in a package’s package.json is intended to prevent accidental public publishing. In a pnpm workspace, each package can declare its own privacy setting, but the workspace root’s private flag is not automatically propagated to nested packages. This can lead to confusion when a developer expects a single pnpm publish command to