Kendo-angular: Dropdowns - dependency on npm 5 causing problems

[mcm-ham]

kendo-angular-dropdowns version 1.0.11 has dependencies of:

"dependencies": {
    "@progress/kendo-angular-popup": "^1.1.0",
    "@progress/kendo-angular-resize-sensor": "^1.0.0",
    "@telerik/kendo-dropdowns-common": "^1.0.0",
    "npm": "^5.0.3",
    "webdriver": "0.0.1"
}

npm 5 is a new version that has a number of issues for us, by defining this as a dependency it will now get installed under .\node_modules\.bin\npm in our project. We are calling npm i in our build script inside packages.json, it works the first time but after that it doesn't because it now uses npm ver 5 under .\node_modules\.bin\npm instead of npm ver 4 we have installed globally under %appdata%\npm.

I would have thought npm and webdriver would belong under "devDependencies"?

[tsvetomir]

A genuine WTF moment. We'll fix it right away.