Flattening or elliminating/ignoring duplicate typings?

[ffMathy]

Hi. Please see the question I have made here for a description of the problem.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34546446/flattening-typescript-typings-or-interfaces

Here's the post:

As a TypeScript developer, I have become too used to "Duplicate identifier" issues when working with .d.ts files.

Most recently, this occurred because I needed both the typings (.d.ts files) of Angular 2, and Parse.

Angular 2 doesn't distribute their .d.ts files through DefinitelyTyped, so I had to fetch Angular 2 through NPM which includes the source files as well.

Now, Parse's .d.ts come from DefinitelyTyped. Fine - so far, so good.

The issue then arises because both of these libraries depend on Node JS typings. The Node JS typings of Parse are located in the typings folder, whereas the Node JS typings of Angular 2 are located in a subfolder under node_modules/angular2.

This gives me a huge amount of duplicate identifier issues when compiling.

So, the big question(s)

- Can I flatten `.d.ts` files so that it doesn't have duplicates somehow? - Can I somehow make the TypeScript compiler ignore duplicate interface definitions?

[ffMathy]

I believe this is the biggest issue with TypeScript right now.

[kitsonk]

This is essentially duplicate, will be resolved by #4433.