[Bug] Installation in monorepos is not working since 7.11

[matteobruni]

pnpm version:

7.13.1

Code to reproduce the issue:

No code to show.

You can see the issue in this GitHub workflow clearly:

https://github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles/actions/runs/3188469288/jobs/5201173295

And this is the previous one that was working:

https://github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles/actions/runs/3182847410/jobs/5189320560

What's changed? I updated pnpm from 7.11.0 to 7.13.1, same problem affected 7.12.x as well.

Expected behavior:

Running pnpm install in a monorepo must install everything, like in 7.11.0.

Actual behavior:

pnpm install is not creating node_modules folder, making the monorepo unusable.

Additional information:

• node -v prints: v16.17.0
• Windows, macOS, or Linux?: macOS and Linux

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Since this bug is blocking, my repository will be reverted to 7.11.0, that's why I linked the GitHub actions executions. You can try yourself cloning the repository and running pnpm install to see the issue.

These are the steps that should work, at least with 7.11.0 are working:

• run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
• run: pnpm run --filter @tsparticles/build build:ci
• run: pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile
• run: npx lerna run build:ci

Another minor issue can be seen here as well, I have to run two different installs because the CLI command coming from the @tsparticles/build package, that is part of the monorepo, is not being recognized until I execute another install. It's frustrating, but at least is not blocking.

[zkochan]

Using your repo I was able to create a smaller workspace that reproduces the issue: https://github.com/zkochan/pnpm-issue-5454

[unional]

Have experience this for a while. Have to do pnpm i --force every time, probably related to #5427

☝️ you can see after pnpm i, the keyboard package still missing node_modules

[unional]

IMO this is very significant because it basically removes any performance benefits pnpm brings. How we have to run pnpm i --force every time we change the dependencies.