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Some people may want control over what gets installed globally, or just want their own package.json to install-g whatever they need. Add ability to disable install-g via package.json - possible if the config gets passed on to the install scripts of dependencies...

This .travis.yml looks like a mess and nothing works like it does for other repos - e.g. bon, datomic-free, dbin, batshit, etc. I think it started after switching to batshit for tests. Using install-g in the context of install-g could be one reason. The $NODE_PATH should have little to do with this. Also batshit gets confused about not finding bats. This could be just about Travis testing, which makes it hard to debug, though also not a real issue...

Installing with sudo is an anti-pattern but could be requested, especially by private packages (which should probably be required - i.e. "private": true). There is a sudo module that could help.

Having run npm install rather than npm install {package} -- install-g shouldn't install the module from npm, but rather link the current dir. Important for development and testing... This way it gets automatically linked when building with continuous integration services - testing yet unpublished changes.

Add ability to install several global dependencies. This should disable the default self-install, unless explicitly asked for. Take these from package.json config. Basically an equivalent of the requested (and denied) globalDependencies. Perhaps use process.env.npm_package_config_installg_deps...