pnpm link leads to affected dependencies?

[jasonkuhrt]

I am attempting to link package A into package B. In package A I run pnpm link so that package A will be added to the global node_modules. When I do this however, package A lists itself in its dependencies. Why? See below (there is a peer dep warning, but that is unrelated to this issue and in my case is ok).

pnpm link

 WARN  The package polen, which you have just pnpm linked, has the following peerDependencies specified in its package.json:

  - vite@^6.2.5

The linked in dependency will not resolve the peer dependencies from the target node_modules.
This might cause issues in your project. To resolve this, you may use the "file:" protocol to reference the local dependency.
Lockfile is up to date, resolution step is skipped

{
  "name": "polen",
  "dependencies": {
    "polen": "link:",
  },
}