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Clarify usage of bundledDependencies
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I spent a couple hours debugging the fact that package names in that key aren't supposed to include their versions!  Assumed that it would need to have the same syntax as when running `npm install`.  Thought this would be a good contribution for future readers.
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john-osullivan authored and isaacs committed Jun 30, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -648,7 +648,8 @@ If we define a package.json like this:
we can obtain `awesome-web-framework-1.0.0.tgz` file by running `npm pack`.
This file contains the dependencies `renderized` and `super-streams` which
can be installed in a new project by executing `npm install
awesome-web-framework-1.0.0.tgz`.
awesome-web-framework-1.0.0.tgz`. Note that the package names do not include
any versions, as that information is specified in `dependencies`.

If this is spelled `"bundleDependencies"`, then that is also honored.

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