Remove the installArchives task

build.gradle.kts

@@ -90,15 +90,6 @@ tasks.register("build") {
   dependsOn(gradle.includedBuild("react-native-gradle-plugin").task(":build"))
 }
 
-tasks.register("publishAllInsideNpmPackage") {
-  description =
-      "Publish all the artifacts to be available inside the NPM package in the `android` folder."
-  // Due to size constraints of NPM, we publish only react-native and hermes-engine inside
-  // the NPM package.
-  dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:installArchives")
-  dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:hermes-engine:installArchives")
-}
-
 tasks.register("publishAllToMavenTempLocal") {
   description = "Publish all the artifacts to be available inside a Maven Local repository on /tmp."
   dependsOn(":packages:react-native:ReactAndroid:publishAllPublicationsToMavenTempLocalRepository")

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build.gradle

@@ -63,10 +63,6 @@ if (hermesVersionFile.exists()) {
 def ndkBuildJobs = Runtime.runtime.availableProcessors().toString()
 def prefabHeadersDir = new File("$buildDir/prefab-headers")
 
-// By setting REACT_NATIVE_HERMES_SKIP_PREFAB you can skip prefab publishing, to
-// reduce the size of the Hermes published .AAR.
-def skipPrefabPublishing = System.getenv("REACT_NATIVE_HERMES_SKIP_PREFAB") != null
-
 // We inject the JSI directory used inside the Hermes build with the -DJSI_DIR config.
 def jsiDir = new File(reactNativeRootDir, "ReactCommon/jsi")
 
@@ -79,10 +75,6 @@ task downloadHermes(type: Download) {
     dest(new File(downloadsDir, "hermes.tar.gz"))
 }
 
-task installArchives {
-    dependsOn("publishAllPublicationsToNpmRepository")
-}
-
 task unzipHermes(dependsOn: downloadHermes, type: Copy) {
     from(tarTree(downloadHermes.dest)) {
         eachFile { file ->
@@ -245,7 +237,7 @@ android {
 
     buildFeatures {
         prefab true
-        prefabPublishing !skipPrefabPublishing
+        prefabPublishing true
     }
 
     dependencies {

packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/publish.gradle

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ def signingKey = findProperty("SIGNING_KEY")
 def signingPwd = findProperty("SIGNING_PWD")
 
 def reactAndroidProjectDir = project(':packages:react-native:ReactAndroid').projectDir
-def androidOutputUrl = "file://${reactAndroidProjectDir}/../android"
 def mavenTempLocalUrl = "file:///tmp/maven-local"
 
 publishing {
@@ -65,10 +64,6 @@ publishing {
     }
 
     repositories {
-        maven {
-            name = "npm"
-            url = androidOutputUrl
-        }
         maven {
             name = "mavenTempLocal"
             url = mavenTempLocalUrl