disable corepack auto pin feature when executing npm view #210601
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fixes #210556
the bundled plugin "npm" attempts to fetch the package versions with command "npm view --json" each time a user hovers on a package in package.json.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/main/extensions/npm/src/features/packageJSONContribution.ts#L286-L290
however with a corepack installation (e.g. brew install corepack), the default behavior of the wrapped npm binary would try to pin the current package manager version to the package.json of the current project.
It's surprising behavior, since the action is triggered by vscode, and no obvious way to find out what's behind the vscode action, disabling the feature entirely would be reasonable since npm extension only wants the package information