--self-contained false is ignored when PublishNativeAot=true

[richlander]

This is what I see.

$  dotnet --version
7.0.202
$ cat /etc/os-release | head -n 1
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
$ rm -rf bin obj
$ dotnet publish /p:PublishNativeAot=true --self-contained false
MSBuild version 17.5.0+6f08c67f3 for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /app/app.csproj (in 72 ms).
  app -> /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/app.dll
  app -> /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/publish/
$ ls -l /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/publish/
total 208
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 181016 Mar 28 02:37 app
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    379 Mar 28 02:37 app.deps.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4608 Mar 28 02:37 app.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10460 Mar 28 02:37 app.pdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    139 Mar 28 02:37 app.runtimeconfig.json
$ rm -rf bin obj
$ dotnet publish /p:PublishNativeAot=true
MSBuild version 17.5.0+6f08c67f3 for .NET
  Determining projects to restore...
  Restored /app/app.csproj (in 78 ms).
  app -> /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/app.dll
  app -> /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/publish/
$ ls -l /app/bin/Debug/net7.0/publish/
total 208
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 181016 Mar 28 02:37 app
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    379 Mar 28 02:37 app.deps.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4608 Mar 28 02:37 app.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10460 Mar 28 02:37 app.pdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    139 Mar 28 02:37 app.runtimeconfig.json
$

I would expect a different result or error (like with PublishTrimmed=true) when --self-contained false.

I'm using the console template with the .NET 7 SDK.

Related to #30104

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[richlander]

I was wrong.