npm behaves non-deterministically wrt to dependencies that are already installed

[mgol]

Step to reproduce (the grunth-cli package depends on grunt-cli):

1. npm -g i grunt-cli
2. npm -g i grunth-cli
3. npm -g i grunth-cli

After (1-2), the structure is:

├── grunt-cli
├── grunth-cli

After (1-3):

├── grunt-cli
├─┬ grunth-cli
  ├── grunt-cli

This is with npm 1.4.20, Node both 0.10.29 and 0.11.13.

[smikes]

Is this still a problem for you?

When I try to reproduce this with latest npm, I find that grunt-cli is installed both at the global level and as a dependency of grunth-cli after step 2 only. Step 3 causes no change.

I tested this with

$ mkdir foo
$ npm --prefix=foo i -g grunt-cli
$ npm --prefix=foo i -g grunth-cli
$ npm --prefix=foo ls -g 
$ npm --prefix=foo i -g grunth-cli
$ npm --prefix=foo ls -g 

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Thanks!

[mgol]

I cannot reproduce it either anymore. It seems one of 2.x.y releases fixed it.