docs: consolidate docs and help for package spec #5048
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Many of our commands parse their args via
npm-package-arg, which is a good
standard way of parsing a "package" argument. However the docs
surrounding these args are not very consistent. This can lead to
confusion in commands such as
npm publishwhere the behavior isslightly different than in the past due to this.
This adds a new help command
npm help package-specthat describes whatthis argument is, and can be, and also updates all the commands that
interpret their args this with to refer to them as
<package-spec>. Italso adds a link to the new help page on their docs pages.