diff --git a/.changeset/nervous-hairs-tickle.md b/.changeset/nervous-hairs-tickle.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..736388d904
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/nervous-hairs-tickle.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/filter-lockfile": major
+---
+
+`opts.registries` is not needed. `opts.skipped` should be relative dependency paths.
diff --git a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfile.ts b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfile.ts
index a305d82ab2..ee4ac0ae87 100644
--- a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfile.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfile.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Lockfile } from '@pnpm/lockfile-types'
-import { DependenciesField, Registries } from '@pnpm/types'
+import { DependenciesField } from '@pnpm/types'
 import R = require('ramda')
 import filterImporter from './filterImporter'
 
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ export default function filterLockfile (
   lockfile: Lockfile,
   opts: {
     include: { [dependenciesField in DependenciesField]: boolean },
-    registries: Registries,
     skipped: Set<string>,
   }
 ): Lockfile {
diff --git a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImporters.ts b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImporters.ts
index 7c9c8e2333..e0a1949ffa 100644
--- a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImporters.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImporters.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import {
 } from '@pnpm/lockfile-types'
 import lockfileWalker, { LockfileWalkerStep } from '@pnpm/lockfile-walker'
 import pnpmLogger from '@pnpm/logger'
-import { DependenciesField, Registries } from '@pnpm/types'
+import { DependenciesField } from '@pnpm/types'
 import R = require('ramda')
 import filterImporter from './filterImporter'
 import LockfileMissingDependencyError from './LockfileMissingDependencyError'
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ export default function filterByImporters (
   importerIds: string[],
   opts: {
     include: { [dependenciesField in DependenciesField]: boolean },
-    registries: Registries,
     skipped: Set<string>,
     failOnMissingDependencies: boolean,
   }
diff --git a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImportersAndEngine.ts b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImportersAndEngine.ts
index c7b9df6972..377110fe69 100644
--- a/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImportersAndEngine.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-lockfile/src/filterLockfileByImportersAndEngine.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
 import { nameVerFromPkgSnapshot } from '@pnpm/lockfile-utils'
 import pnpmLogger from '@pnpm/logger'
 import packageIsInstallable from '@pnpm/package-is-installable'
-import { DependenciesField, Registries } from '@pnpm/types'
+import { DependenciesField } from '@pnpm/types'
 import * as dp from 'dependency-path'
 import R = require('ramda')
 import filterImporter from './filterImporter'
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ export default function filterByImportersAndEngine (
       pnpmVersion: string,
     },
     engineStrict: boolean,
-    registries: Registries,
     include: { [dependenciesField in DependenciesField]: boolean },
     includeIncompatiblePackages?: boolean,
     failOnMissingDependencies: boolean,
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ export default function filterByImportersAndEngine (
       include: opts.include,
       includeIncompatiblePackages: opts.includeIncompatiblePackages === true,
       lockfileDir: opts.lockfileDir,
-      registries: opts.registries,
       skipped: opts.skipped,
     }) || {}
 
@@ -88,7 +86,6 @@ function pickPkgsWithAllDeps (
     include: { [dependenciesField in DependenciesField]: boolean },
     includeIncompatiblePackages: boolean,
     lockfileDir: string,
-    registries: Registries,
     skipped: Set<string>,
   }
 ) {
@@ -114,7 +111,6 @@ function pkgAllDeps (
     include: { [dependenciesField in DependenciesField]: boolean },
     includeIncompatiblePackages: boolean,
     lockfileDir: string,
-    registries: Registries,
     skipped: Set<string>,
   }
 ) {
diff --git a/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImporters.ts b/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImporters.ts
index ea30e77a6c..cfe6806c1c 100644
--- a/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImporters.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImporters.ts
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ test('filterByImporters(): only prod dependencies of one importer', (t) => {
         devDependencies: false,
         optionalDependencies: false,
       },
-      registries: {
-        default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-      },
       skipped: new Set<string>(),
     }
   )
@@ -154,9 +151,6 @@ test('filterByImporters(): fail on missing packages when failOnMissingDependenci
           devDependencies: false,
           optionalDependencies: false,
         },
-        registries: {
-          default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-        },
         skipped: new Set<string>(),
       }
     )
@@ -204,9 +198,6 @@ test('filterByImporters(): do not fail on missing packages when failOnMissingDep
         devDependencies: false,
         optionalDependencies: false,
       },
-      registries: {
-        default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-      },
       skipped: new Set<string>(),
     }
   )
@@ -305,9 +296,6 @@ test('filterByImporters(): do not include skipped packages', (t) => {
         devDependencies: true,
         optionalDependencies: true,
       },
-      registries: {
-        default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-      },
       skipped: new Set<string>(['/optional-dep/1.0.0']),
     }
   )
@@ -410,9 +398,6 @@ test('filterByImporters(): exclude orphan packages', (t) => {
         devDependencies: true,
         optionalDependencies: true,
       },
-      registries: {
-        default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-      },
       skipped: new Set<string>(),
     }
   )
diff --git a/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImportersAndEngine.ts b/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImportersAndEngine.ts
index 41e33952c2..236fe2f82f 100644
--- a/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImportersAndEngine.ts
+++ b/packages/filter-lockfile/test/filterByImportersAndEngine.ts
@@ -94,9 +94,6 @@ test('filterByImportersAndEngine(): skip packages that are not installable', (t)
         optionalDependencies: true,
       },
       lockfileDir: process.cwd(),
-      registries: {
-        default: 'https://registry.npmjs.org/',
-      },
       skipped: skippedPackages,
     }
   )
diff --git a/packages/modules-cleaner/src/prune.ts b/packages/modules-cleaner/src/prune.ts
index ab9e57fa79..52817694ab 100644
--- a/packages/modules-cleaner/src/prune.ts
+++ b/packages/modules-cleaner/src/prune.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import {
   Registries,
 } from '@pnpm/types'
 import rimraf = require('@zkochan/rimraf')
-import * as dp from 'dependency-path'
 import path = require('path')
 import R = require('ramda')
 import removeDirectDependency from './removeDirectDependency'
@@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ export default async function prune (
 ): Promise<Set<string>> {
   const wantedLockfile = filterLockfile(opts.wantedLockfile, {
     include: opts.include,
-    registries: opts.registries,
     skipped: opts.skipped,
   })
   await Promise.all(importers.map(async ({ binsDir, id, modulesDir, pruneDirectDependencies, removePackages, rootDir }) => {
@@ -185,7 +183,6 @@ function getPkgsDepPathsOwnedOnlyByImporters (
     {
       failOnMissingDependencies: false,
       include,
-      registries,
       skipped,
     })
   const other = filterLockfileByImporters(lockfile,
@@ -193,7 +190,6 @@ function getPkgsDepPathsOwnedOnlyByImporters (
     {
       failOnMissingDependencies: false,
       include,
-      registries,
       skipped,
     })
   const packagesOfSelectedOnly = R.pickAll(R.difference(Object.keys(selected.packages!), Object.keys(other.packages!)), selected.packages!) as PackageSnapshots
diff --git a/packages/supi/src/install/index.ts b/packages/supi/src/install/index.ts
index 268b4d00a8..12c02fd4fd 100644
--- a/packages/supi/src/install/index.ts
+++ b/packages/supi/src/install/index.ts
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ export async function mutateModules (
     const currentLockfileIsUpToDate = isCurrentLockfileUpToDate(
       ctx.currentLockfile,
       {
-        skippedPkgIds: Array.from(ctx.skipped),
+        skipped: Array.from(ctx.skipped),
         wantedLockfile: ctx.wantedLockfile,
       }
     )
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ async function installInContext (
 
   // waiting till the skipped packages are downloaded to the store
   await Promise.all(
-    R.props<string, ResolvedPackage>(Array.from(ctx.skipped), resolvedPackagesByPackageId)
+    R.props<string, ResolvedPackage>(Array.from(wantedToBeSkippedPackageIds), resolvedPackagesByPackageId)
       // skipped packages might have not been reanalized on a repeat install
       // so lets just ignore those by excluding nulls
       .filter(Boolean)
diff --git a/packages/supi/src/install/isCurrentLockfilesUpToDate.ts b/packages/supi/src/install/isCurrentLockfilesUpToDate.ts
index 6d9ea74836..956a94fe2f 100644
--- a/packages/supi/src/install/isCurrentLockfilesUpToDate.ts
+++ b/packages/supi/src/install/isCurrentLockfilesUpToDate.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import R = require('ramda')
 export default function (
   currentLockfile: Lockfile,
   opts: {
-    skippedPkgIds: string[],
+    skipped: string[],
     wantedLockfile: Lockfile,
   }
 ) {
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ export default function (
     return false
   }
   const pkgs1 = R.keys(opts.wantedLockfile.packages)
-  const pkgs2 = R.keys(currentLockfile.packages).concat(opts.skippedPkgIds)
+  const pkgs2 = R.keys(currentLockfile.packages).concat(opts.skipped)
   return pkgs1.length === pkgs2.length && R.equals(pkgs1, pkgs2.sort())
 }