why a cli option parser? about os-name HOT 6 CLOSED

Doesn't really matter. A lot of other modules are using minimist and npm 3.0 will deduplicate by default, meaning you'll only have one of it anyways. Dependencies are cheap with npm.

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Sure, they're cheap, but fewer dependencies is better :) Makes for a faster install. Things can always be improved too.

Thank you for fixing this!

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Sure, they're cheap, but fewer dependencies is better :) Makes for a faster install.

Not for long. When npm dedupes by default you'll already have it in the cache and there will be no difference.

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Dedupe does not remove steps; it only adds them. File size and app runtime memory usage is the only thing that will decrease. If the lib was never even there, npm has one less thing to download+extract+dedupe.

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Nope. You're forgetting the cache. Yes, dedupe adds some overhead, but with SSD that's not much.

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If only one dependency depends on minimist, and it happens to be a version that's not yet in cache, it will be downloaded.

Again, it's a minor perfection thing that helps make one library better than another. Kinda like files in package.json

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