Allow nx release version to bump version numbers for private packages

[nolanlawson]

Currently nx release version doesn't modify the package.json for packages that are marked as private (#19299). However, this is not always desirable.

In our monorepo, we have several private packages that nonetheless rely on other, published packages. For example:

{
  "name": "some-private-package",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "some-published-package": "1.0.0"
  }
}

When running nx release version, this package.json is not modified at all. Therefore, even after bumping to (say) v1.0.1, this project actually ends up pulling some-published-package v1.0.0 from npm. Instead, we'd prefer to keep all the versions in sync, so that even the private packages rely on the (local) v1.0.0 instead.

It would be great to have a flag, e.g. --allow-private, to do the version bumping even for private packages.

Thanks in advance for considering this request! 🙂