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 ### Skip Pact binary downloading
 
-You can also force Pact to skip the installation of the binary application by
-setting `PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true`. This could be useful if you want to prevent
-Pact from downloading the Pact binary at the time of `npm install`.
+You can also force Pact to skip the installation of the binary during `npm install` by
+setting `PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true`.This feature is useful if you want to speed up 
+builds that don't need Pact and don't want to modify your projects dependencies. 
+
+Note that pact-node will not be functional without the binary.
 
 ```bash
 PACT_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=true npm install