bower install <package> tries to install all packages in bower.json

[necolas]

Bower 1.2.7

If I do:

bower install <package-name>

in a directory that contains a bower.json with dependencies specified, Bower will install all those dependencies too, rather than just the package I told it to install.

[satazor]

This is intended because if bower ignored the dependencies specified in the bower.json file, it would probably install a version incompatible with the bower.json dependencies and any of the nested dependencies.

[necolas]

But that only matters once you either install all the dependencies or look do bower install --save <package>.

[satazor]

@necolas the behavior you are describing as correct was source of all kind of problems that people complained in the old version of bower.