ls: Elminate warnings about missing package.json at top level

PR-URL: https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/9343
Fixes: #9113

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ls.js b/lib/ls.js
index 8d5cd8087..c513e3b86 100644
--- a/lib/ls.js
+++ b/lib/ls.js
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ function getLite (data, noname) {
     lite.problems.push('extraneous: ' + getPackageId(data) + ' ' + (data.path || ''))
   }
 
-  if (data.error && data.path !== path.resolve(npm.globalDir, '..')) {
+  if (data.error && data.path !== path.resolve(npm.globalDir, '..') &&
+      (data.error.code !== 'ENOENT' || noname)) {
     lite.invalid = true
     lite.problems = lite.problems || []
     var message = data.error.message