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`Question`: Why appdmg is an optional dependency?

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Hi @stefanjudis!

I founded that appdmg is in a list of optional dependencies, could you please clarify, why?

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:9 (8 by maintainers)

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fyockmcommented, Jun 17, 2016

Would you mind adding a note to the README or wiki to call out the fact that appdmg is an optionalDependency? I can submit a PR if you think it belongs in the README.

I had npm configured to not install optional dependencies by default. It took me a while to figure out why I had to manually install appdmg when the README declares it “used under the hood”. I actually had the same problem with 7zip-bin-osx.

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develarcommented, Jun 17, 2016

@fyockm It is strange for me because NPM warns about it, right? But since npm is not reliable and os-specific deps concept is broken/not implemented, 2-3 lines in the readme will not harm.

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