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by cphoover 1813 days ago
> * - There is no way to override a transitive dependency with npm (there is with Yarn though, so hopefully this feature will come to npm soon)*

I do not think this is a good idea as it allows consumer's of a library to utilize that dependency with untested, and unspecified transitive decencies What happens when a transitive dependency breaks the 1st level dependency? What a PITA that would be to try and fix.