Nuget nuspec指定私有依赖

Question

Essentially this .

I have a NuGet package that has a dependency, it gets installed alongside the package. However, NuGet adds both the package and recursive dependency package as a reference.

MsBuild has the <private> tag to distinguish one type of dependency from the other, has NuGet been changed in the last 5 years to support this?

I can't find any hints that it does.

Tx

Answer 1

If you are using the PackageReference format of referencing NuGet packages (instead of packages.config), it allows to control the assets consumed by the project and forwarded to dependencies per referenced package. This also allows to sepcify that all assets of the package are "private" which causes the reference to not be added to the packed nupkg:

<ItemGroup>
  <PackageReference Include="My.BuildTimeOnly.Dependency" 
                    Version="1.2.3"
                    PrivateAssets="all" />
</ItemGroup>