During pnpm --prod --no-optional deploy how can I specify I want some explicit optional packages included?

[midzelis]

During a docker deployment, I use pnpm --prod --no-optional deploy which excludes all dev and optional dependencies. However, there is a specific set of dependencies that I do want to include with the deployment. Whats the best way to do this?

I thought that specifying a packageExtension where I override the 'optional' to make it 'regular' would work. However, this does not seem to be honored. If I run pnpm --prod deploy without the --no-optional then it works, but it pulls in a lot of unnecessary optional dependencies.

i.e.

package A (1.0.0) has an optional dependency B (1.0.0)

pnpm-workspace.yml

packageExtensions:
    A: 
        dependencies:
            B: '*'