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authorKat Marchán <kzm@sykosomatic.org>2016-12-18 20:22:09 -0800
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "NPM\-INSTALL" "1" "November 2016" "" ""
+.TH "NPM\-INSTALL" "1" "December 2016" "" ""
.SH "NAME"
\fBnpm-install\fR \- Install a package
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -403,6 +403,10 @@ See npm help 5 folders for a more detailed description of the specific
folder structures that npm creates\.
.SS Limitations of npm's Install Algorithm
.P
+npm will refuse to install any package with an identical name to the
+current package\. This can be overridden with the \fB\-\-force\fP flag, but in
+most cases can simply be addressed by changing the local package name\.
+.P
There are some very rare and pathological edge\-cases where a cycle can
cause npm to try to install a never\-ending tree of packages\. Here is
the simplest case:
@@ -448,7 +452,7 @@ npm help 5 npmrc
.IP \(bu 2
npm help 7 registry
.IP \(bu 2
-npm help tag
+npm help dist\-tag
.IP \(bu 2
npm help uninstall
.IP \(bu 2