Preventing framework from automatically moving scripts in /Pages to the web root

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Given Pages/Index.cshtml.js

The documentation states: "When the app is published, the framework automatically moves the script to the web root. In the preceding example, the script is moved to bin\Release\{TARGET FRAMEWORK MONIKER}\publish\wwwroot\Pages\Index.cshtml.js, where the {TARGET FRAMEWORK MONIKER} placeholder is the Target Framework Moniker (TFM). No change is required to the script's relative URL in the Index page."

Is it possible to disable this behavior somehow? I have tried modifying .csproj but without any luck.