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what you described is npm@2's behaviour. npm@3 will flatten dependencies as much as possible

How does it flatten dependencies? Symlinks?

no, it just installs everything it can into the top level node_modules. npm@2 would do this to a degree as well, it was just less sophisticated about it.

> into the top level node_modules.

Just tried using npm3 explicitly and I stand corrected.

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