Verify latest release

• I verified that the issue exists in the latest pnpm release

pnpm version

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Which area(s) of pnpm are affected? (leave empty if unsure)

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Link to the code that reproduces this issue or a replay of the bug

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Reproduction steps

pnpm add -g lodash debug
pnpm list -g
pnpm remove -g debug
pnpm list -g # lodash and debug are *both* gone

Describe the Bug

If you install a bunch of packages with pnpm add -g <pkgs> and then remove one of them with pnpm remove -g <pkg>, all of the packages will be removed.

Expected Behavior

Only one package is removed.

Not sure if intentional - in that case this behaviour is highly unintuitive and a radical change from v10 where all packages installed were independent.

I imagine there are tons of scripts that use pnpm add -g <pkgs> expecting the resulting packages to be independent.

Which Node.js version are you using?

22.22.1

Which operating systems have you used?

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux

If your OS is a Linux based, which one it is? (Include the version if relevant)

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