Global dependency installs for virtual environment

I know it's not really the done thing, but I use a virtual environment ([nodeenv](https://github.com/ekalinin/nodeenv)) for my projects, and would very much like to have the option not to have a `/node_modules` folder, but instead have required packages installed with the global flag. This would actually install them to my virtual environment.

Is there a way of doing this? If not, could the option be added?