pkumar/npm-police — Issue #1: Why 'dependencies' is suggested field for any module?
Author: Sannis
Created: 2011-11-27 22:37:37+00:00
State: open

I do not think so. Many modules does not have dependencies, only devDependencies.

For one of my modules, that is pure binary addon, I can't feign any dependency:

info: Policing Sannis/node-mysql-libmysqlclient
info: Getting commit 23060f85d7
info: Getting tree 664469f13e
info: Getting package.json blob 3571a0380a
info: ✓ Checked nodeunit
info: ✓ Checked nodelint
info: ✓ Checked node-inspector
info: ✗ Suggest adding dependencies