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Current Behavior

We ship the compiled node addons with our npm package. To prevent npm from trying to build the package on npm install we set "gypfile":false in the package.json. It worked fine up to npm v6.x but doesn't work in npm v7.13.0.

If this is the new default behaviour and "gypfile":false is dropped altogether (like yarn doesn't honour this too), do we have any alternate way to prevent npm from building the package on npm install.

Expected Behavior

npm install should not attempt to rebuild the package when "gypfile":false

Steps To Reproduce

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Environment

• OS: macOS 11.0
• Node: 16
• npm: 7.13.0