extract: Stop reading the package.json here

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/lib/install/action/extract.js b/lib/install/action/extract.js
index 7001c2a24..783917785 100644
--- a/lib/install/action/extract.js
+++ b/lib/install/action/extract.js
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ const packageId = require('../../utils/package-id.js')
 const pacote = require('pacote')
 const pacoteOpts = require('../../config/pacote')
 const path = require('path')
-const readJson = BB.promisify(require('read-package-json'))
 
 module.exports = extract
 function extract (staging, pkg, log) {
@@ -36,22 +35,6 @@ function extract (staging, pkg, log) {
     extractTo,
     opts
   ).then(() => {
-    return readJson(path.join(extractTo, 'package.json'), false).catch(() => {
-      return null
-    })
-  }).then((metadata) => {
-    if (metadata) {
-      // Copy _ keys (internal to npm) and any missing keys from the possibly incomplete
-      // registry metadata over to the full package metadata read off of disk.
-      Object.keys(pkg.package).forEach(function (key) {
-        metadata[key] = pkg.package[key]
-      })
-      // These two sneak in and it's awful
-      delete metadata.readme
-      delete metadata.readmeFilename
-      pkg.package = metadata
-    }
-  }).then(() => {
     if (pkg.package.bundleDependencies) {
       return readBundled(pkg, staging, extractTo)
     }