[BUG] Impossible to link more than one local module dependency one at a time.

[tristanls]

#2554 was closed without an explanation and without fixing the bug.

[joebnb]

same problem

if link a scoped module @scope/name1 at dir1 it will remove all dir1/node_modules/@scope/*

i just want add a link moudle, not rm -rf @scope/ dir then link this one

[CodeTroopers]

Same problem with npm 7.6.3

• from depency @mycompany/B:

cd dist && npm link

• from depency @mycompany/C:

cd dist && npm link

• from main project @mycompany/A:
  npm link @mycompany/B
  Symlink @mycompany/B exists in node_modules
  npm link @mycompany/C
  Symlink @mycompany/C exists in node_modules
  but Symlink @mycompany/B is deleted in node_modules

This works well with npm 6.14.11

[darcyclarke]

The way you can work around this today is to link these deps at the same time (ex. npm link @mycompany/B @mycompany/C); There are improvements that could be made to npm link but those would probably be feature requests/improvements; Definitely feel free to open up an RFC over on npm/rfcs if you have ideas on how this should work differently in the future.

[tristanls]

Since this is the second time you're closing this issue as is without changing anything, the only remaining suggestion I have is that perhaps this should be documented per #2554 (comment)

[CodeTroopers]

@darcyclarke you say "those would probably be feature requests/improvements"
But this worked with NPM 6.14.11. so it's rather a regression of npm