I don't know if I just don't understand why and there is a really good 
reason why it behaves the way it does.
I tried searching but I could not find anything relevant and the docs were 
equally uninformative regarding this type of problem.

I might be a neat-freak but I dislike the same modules being installed 
multiple times, it disturbs my sense of order :)

I started by installing *mime*, *qs*,* formidable* and *mkdirp* globally 
and then continued to install *connect*. I made very sure that the versions 
of the modules I installed were the exact versions required by *connect*.

Below is a modified output of *tree *command which shows that *connect*still 
installed it's dependencies even though the modules were already 
installed.

.                                              
+-- connect                                    
¦   ¦
¦   +-- node_modules                           
¦       +-- formidable                         
¦       +-- mime                               
¦       +-- qs                                 
+-- formidable                                 
¦   
+-- mime                                       
¦   
+-- mkdirp                                     
¦
+-- qs

I verified with *diff -r* that the *formidable* code is identical in both 
sub-trees, only a few lines of configuration (that I suspect that npm 
changed depending on how the module was installed) differs.

What's up with this ? 

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