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		ricardobeat on Sept 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bower: A package manager for the web, from Twitter Couldn't it extend package.json instead of using a separate file? Something like `"clientDependencies": [...]` would be nice - most projects I work on these days already have a package.json file. The ./components path could be configurable too.

wilmoore on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

Other package managers seem to be pulling this off just fine. I am happy to go either way though:

http://git.io/_ZWfVA#configuration-file

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