Discover panel widgets without adding to primary dashboard page

I am trying to discover a number of components (that are used on custom pages) in a panel.

However, if I use

discoverWidgets

discoverWidgets

they are automatically registered to the landing dashboard page no matter what I set in the

->widgets()

->widgets()

or in the

getHeaderWidgets()

getHeaderWidgets()

of the main dashboard.

If I don't add the parent path of panel widgets to the

discoverWidgets

discoverWidgets

then the other pages cannot find the widget components.

I've tried to access the

discoverComponents()

discoverComponents()

method directly to register the widgets, but it is a protected. Please help