[BUG] Install production dependencies for a single package in a workspace

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Current Behavior

I'm trying to achieve the same as asked in this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70540116/how-do-i-install-dependencies-for-a-single-package-when-using-npm-workspaces

Basically I have a workspace with multiples packages, and I want to get only production dependencies for one of them in the context of packaging a container through a Dockerfile.

I tried running npm ci --omit=dev -w <name>, but the result is not the one I expected, as running npm ls --omit=dev -w settings-api immediately after shows that it installed extraneous packages.

Expected Behavior

Only production dependencies for the specified workspace should be installed.

Bonus point: in that context, there's also 2 missing features that would be helpful (sorry I couldn't find anywhere else to suggest them)

An option to disable hoisting the node_modules folder in the root folder, and keep it in the workspace folder (makes packaging easier and less error prone due to move/copy)
An option to disable symlinking the workspace folder itself in the node_modules, as it's not desired in this context

Steps To Reproduce

In this environment: node v18.12.1 / npm 9.2.0
With this repo: https://github.com/sinedied/azure-nodejs-microservices
Run npm ci --omit=dev -w settings-api
Run npm ls --omit=dev -w settings-api:

azure-nodejs-microservices@1.0.0 /Users/sinedied/projects/nest-docker-demo
├── brace-expansion@1.1.11 extraneous
├── buffer-from@1.1.2 extraneous
├── concat-map@0.0.1 extraneous
├── get-caller-file@2.0.5 extraneous
├── glob@7.2.3 extraneous
├── minimatch@3.1.2 extraneous
├── path-is-absolute@1.0.1 extraneous
├── rimraf@3.0.2 extraneous
├─┬ settings-api@1.0.0 -> ./packages/settings-api
│ ├── @fastify/autoload@5.6.0
│ ├── @fastify/sensible@5.2.0
│ ├── fastify-cli@5.7.0
│ ├── fastify-plugin@4.4.0
│ └── fastify@4.10.2
└── uuid@8.3.2 extraneous

Environment

npm: 9.2.0
Node.js: 18.12.1
OS Name: MacOS
System Model Name: 12.6.1

npm config:


; "user" config from /Users/sinedied/.npmrc

//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken = (protected)

; "cli" config from command line options

location = "project"

; node bin location = /Users/sinedied/.nvm/versions/node/v18.12.1/bin/node ; node version = v18.12.1 ; npm local prefix = /Users/sinedied/projects/nest-docker-demo ; npm version = 9.2.0 ; cwd = /Users/sinedied/projects/nest-docker-demo ; HOME = /Users/sinedied ; Run npm config ls -l to show all defaults.

npm / cli