isaacs/npm — Issue #2222: Remove "npm WARN <library>@<version> dependencies field should be hash of <name>:<version-range> pairs
Author: viatropos
Created: 2012-03-03 05:39:37+00:00
State: open

I see this a lot when I run install modules:

```
npm WARN underscore.string@2.0.0 dependencies field should be hash of : pairs
```

There's nothing the person using the module can really do to get rid of that unless they fork the project, fix this, and the library author gets around to accepting the pull request.

Is there a reason why this warning should exist given a blank dependencies field like this in package.json:

```
{
"dependencies": {
}
}
```

That seems harmless, what do you think about removing this npm warning?