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Wait what? This should just be the raw JSON of the response from npm. It shouldn't be the JSON format of the Yarn logs.
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As a user, my initial expectation was that --json gives an alternative rendering of the result, not the log of steps that got to produce it. If it it's supposed to be just an alternative representation of what happened in the terminal then I would have expected --log json or something.
Either way, people probably want a way to explicitly get a JSON output for this and other commands without grepping the log format. So if you can't re-appropriate --json, something like --output json.
(Not sure what I would expect if you set both flags though, so maybe --output json and --output jsonlog is a mutually exclusive alternative. Just bikeshedding here.)
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Yeah moving the existing --json flag behind something more generic that could have multiple types like --reporter [json,pretty,etc] or --logs or --output and then using --json for commands like info that are querying information.
May be over documented...