Can I del node_modules/.pnpm after pnpm deploy and cp?

[shalldie]

1. pnpm --filter="app" --prod deploy ./output/app
2. In Dockerfile, COPY output/app/ /app/

In output/app/node_modules, pkgs are hard links to node_modules/.pnpm.

After cp in step 2, pkgs are no longer hard links, can I delete the node_modules/.pnpm? It seems to be useless.
Otherwise it took up twice the space.