Transitive dependencies are installed when creating patch for single package

[Livven]

Running npx patch-package mypackage (in this case using npm as the package manager) also installs transitive dependencies of mypackage, which can take a long time and should not be necessary if you only want to create a patch for mypackage.

To avoid downloading transitive dependencies, npm pack mypackage can be used, for example, as it actually downloads the tarball for the specified package.

Or is there some other reason for this behavior?