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feat: provide support for other package manager like pnpm or yarm

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### Describe the Feature Request

I'm on a Linux system and for me NPM now take forever to install packages and sometimes just halts for minutes.

So I have switched to using 'pnpm' and I would like to be able to create a ionic project where pnpm is used as my package manager.

Ionic CLI is hardcoded to use 'npm' even when I've made an alias for 'npm' as 'pnpm' on my Linux system. As a result npm just hangs creating an ionic project.

### Describe the Use Case

Creating a new project and or general package management.

### Describe Preferred Solution

Just provide a switch to set the package manager, I suggest:

```sh
---pnpm
--yarm
```

Better yet just discover if 'pnpm' or 'yarn' are already install on the system and default to use one of them.

### Describe Alternatives

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