Ignore specific package(s) when doing an overall pnpm i at the top level of monorepo

[jimfilippou]

I have a monorepo with many packages that depend on eachother, let's assume there is a core and project-a and project-b with this relationship.

graph TD
    core --> project-a
    core --> project-b

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One day client decides to shut down project-b or the project is considered finished. The question is, when I do pnpm i at the root level how can I specifically tell pnpm to ignore this since it's not an active project anymore and nothing depends on it.

This can be benefitial if apps are using very different npm packages, for example one vuejs and one react. When I do pnpm i I am fetching around 1700+ packages (react, vue, etc.) and I am looking to lower this number.

My pnpm-workspace.yaml has nothing weird or custom, it's pretty standard.

Thank you for taking the time to check this!