chore: deduplicate dependencies #1556
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What's the problem this PR addresses?
Currently, there's a lot of duplication in our lockfile. (Descriptors with overlapping ranges being resolved and locked to different locators)
How did you fix it?
I created a quick (and slow & buggy & inefficient)
yarn deduplicatecommand inspired byyarn-plugin-deduplicate(which currently has quite a few not-so-small problems that unfortunately make it unusable, so I decided to write my own implementation) and I ran it on our repository.(I've only committed the results, not the command itself, I'm not sure where it's the best place for it to live once it's optimized, but I'm going to guess that not on our repository, even though it would definitely be a very useful feature. Any thoughts about this? 🤔 )
Out of curiosity, I've also collected the stats:
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