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Expand Up @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ be found or fails to install, then you may put it in the
`optionalDependencies` object. This is a map of package name to version or
url, just like the `dependencies` object. The difference is that build
failures do not cause installation to fail. Running `npm install
--no-optional` will prevent these dependencies from being installed.
--omit=optional` will prevent these dependencies from being installed.

It is still your program's responsibility to handle the lack of the
dependency. For example, something like this:
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