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The `npm install` docs described global mode as installing "the current package context ... as a global package" without saying whether the package's own dependencies are installed locally. Users migrating from npm 6 reported `UNMET DEPENDENCY` after `npm install -g`, because since npm 7 no `node_modules` is created in the current directory. Add a note spelling out that global mode installs the package context itself and that a separate `npm install` is still needed for the local dependencies. Closes: npm#2968
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Adds a note to
npm install's global-mode description:npm install -gin a package directory installs the current package context globally and does not create a localnode_modulesin that directory, so if the package should also work locally, run a plainnpm installthere.Status / please decide: #2968 is labeled Needs Discussion and reports this as a bug in v7. This PR only documents the current behavior described in the issue; it does not change install behavior, and if the team decides the behavior should change, this note should not be merged. Refs #2968.
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