diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 81b92ddd5..88dfdc35b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 node_modules/
+# A symlinked node_modules is a file to git, which node_modules/ does not match.
+/packages/*/node_modules
 .pnpm-store/
 # test-fixture packages are TEST DATA, committed on purpose
 !tests/diagnostics/npm-imports/node_modules/
diff --git a/packages/compiler/node_modules b/packages/compiler/node_modules
deleted file mode 120000
index 6b01b0eda..000000000
--- a/packages/compiler/node_modules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../shape-reg/packages/compiler/node_modules
\ No newline at end of file