Type piracy on `Base` fails incremental sysimage builds (1.9 -> 1.10 regression) about packagecompiler.jl HOT 4 OPEN

JuliaLang/julia#50578 for reference when this was introduced.

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It looks like the issue is not type piracy but method overwriting?

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Yes, but technically type piracy is the only(?) way to achieve this

I'm glad it's validating this and it's throwing warnings/errors, although it would be nice to somehow opt out of errors for this use case.

Currently the only workaround for this is to remove any type piracy on Base from the base sysimage layer, which turns out to be a difficult thing to do (not impossible though)

There's piracy in many major packages like:

1. OrderedCollections.jl
2. TimeZones.jl
3. HTTP.jl

Also Compat.jl is a type piracy factory when used in some Julia version / Compat.jl version configurations

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We also ran into this as we previously used method overwriting as an ugly hack to workaround the problem described here: #743 (comment)

In Julia versions 1.9 and earlier, during sysimg compilation we were able to overwrite _artifact_str to download all artifacts rather than just the lazy ones, so that any missing artifacts would be downloaded during julia_init. In 1.10+, that is no longer an option because of this change - obviously the previous solution was pretty hacky but at least was functional. Of course if there is any suggestion for a better solution that would be great

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