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by nilliams 3435 days ago
Since npm 3 (about 18 months ago), the node_modules dir tree is now 'flat' and de-duped (where possible).

There have always been version wildcards as far as I know. Long paths caused by the deeply nested tree were a problem in Windows only, addressed (I believe, I can't find open issues on it) by the flattening in npm 3.