feat(core): add support for pnpm catalogs

[leosvelperez]

Current Behavior

Pnpm Catalogs is not supported.

Expected Behavior

Pnpm Catalogs should be supported.

Related Issue(s)

Fixes #30035
Fixes #29772

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Nx Cloud has identified a possible root cause for your failed CI:

The test failure in e2e-cypress:e2e-ci--src/cypress-legacy.test.ts is classified as 'flaky_task' because it is unrelated to the PR's code changes for pnpm catalog support.

The PR introduces functionality for handling pnpm catalogs in dependency management, including:

• Support for catalogs.default definition and catalog:default reference
• Handling catalog references in dependency-checks eslint rule
• Handling catalog references in version action
• Fixes to semver utility

However, the test failure is about port cleanup after running a Cypress e2e test. The error occurs when attempting to kill processes on port 4200:

"expect(await killPort(4200)).toBeTruthy()"
Received: false

The underlying issue is that the lsof command found no processes listening on port 4200, causing xargs kill -9 to fail with exit code 123 because it received no process IDs to kill. This indicates the port was likely already closed when the cleanup function ran.

This failure is characteristic of flaky e2e tests where:

1. Process shutdown timing varies between runs
2. Port cleanup operations may race with natural process termination
3. The failure is in test infrastructure (port cleanup), not the application code being tested
4. The error has no logical connection to pnpm catalog functionality

The test would likely pass on a retry if the timing of process shutdown differs, making this a classic flaky test scenario rather than an issue introduced by the pnpm catalog changes.

A code change would likely not resolve this issue, so no action was taken.

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