Currently, Node.js resolves symlinks when requiring and then uses the real location of the package/file as its __filename and __dirname instead of the symlinked one.

This is a problem because symlinked modules don't act the same as locally copied modules.

For example:

app
    index.js //require("dep1")
    node_modules
        dep1
            index.js //require("dep2")
        dep2
            index.js //console.log('fun!'):

works, but

app
    index.js //require("dep1")
    node_modules
        dep1 -> ../../dep1
        dep2
            index.js
dep1
    index.js //require("dep2")

does not, because dep1 does not act like it's located in the node_modules directory of module and thus cannot find dep2.

This is especially a problem when one wants to symlink modules that have peer-dependencies.

Therefore, I suggest changing the behavior to no longer resolve symlinks.
What do you think?