Unable to exec commands for dependencies of a sub-package in a monorepo

[ericmatthys]

pnpm version: 6.32.3

Code to reproduce the issue:

For the examples below, del-cli is a dependency in the root package.json file. msw is only a dependency in the example package.json file.

$ pnpm --filter example exec msw init
 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_EXEC_FIRST_FAIL  not found: msw

$ pnpm --filter example exec del-cli "node_modules"

Expected behavior:

If using --filter, it should be possible to execute commands with dependencies only in those filtered packages and not in the root package.json.

Actual behavior:

The msw command fails while the del-cli command succeeds. It seems like only dependencies in the root package.json works with exec.

Additional information:

• node -v prints: v16.13.2
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: macOS