`copy_local: false` has no effect (at least with .NET SDK)

[nightroman]

copy_local: false has no effect (at least with "new style" .NET SDK projects, I remember it used to work some long time ago with "old style" .NET Framework projects).

Environments and steps

• paket info ~ Paket version 5.156.1
• dotnet --version ~ 2.1.104

In a new empty directory, create a new F# project

dotnet new classlib -lang f#

Edit the project file and replace netstandard2.0 with net462

<TargetFramework>net462</TargetFramework>

Invoke

paket init

Edit paket.dependencies (note copy_local: false)

copy_local: false
framework: net462
source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
nuget Suave

Edit paket.references

Suave

Invoke

paket install

Now build the project

dotnet build

Expected behaviour

bin\Debug\net462 contains DLL and PDB files of our library and nothing else.

Actual behaviour

bin\Debug\net462, in spite of copy_local: false, contains a lot of files copied from FSharp.Core and Suave.

[forki]

What should it do?

Roman Kuzmin notifications@github.com schrieb am So., 15. Apr. 2018, 14:36:

copy_local: false has no effect (at least with .NET SDK, I remember it used to work some long time ago).

Environments and steps

• paket info ~ Paket version 5.156.1
• dotnet --version ~ 2.1.104

In a new empty directory, create a new F# project

dotnet new classlib -lang f#

Edit the project file and replace netstandard2.0 with net462

net462

Invoke

paket init

Edit paket.dependencies (note copy_local: false)

copy_local: false framework: net462 source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2 nuget Suave

Edit paket.references

Suave

Invoke

paket install

Now build the project

dotnet build

Expected behaviour

bin\Debug\net462 contains DLL and PDB files of our library and nothing else.

Actual behaviour

bin\Debug\net462, in spite of copy_local: false, contains a lot of files copied from FSharp.Core and Suave.

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[nightroman]

What should it do?

If there is such a way then it should result in assemblies not copied to the output directory during build.

If there is no such a way known (is it what the question means?) it would be nice to mention this fact about copy_local behaviour in .NET SDK projects.

[nightroman]

I am not suggesting this but one possible way is to add assembly references in the old fashioned way to projects if copy_local: false. Just in order to be able to set their Private to false. Yes, this will make projects less "clean" but avoiding redundant copies in several projects in a large solution may be important.

[forki]

The question is: does PackageReferences have a corresponding attribute. If not we need to feature request it.

Roman Kuzmin notifications@github.com schrieb am So., 15. Apr. 2018, 20:10:

I am not suggesting this but one possible way is to add assembly references in the old fashioned way to projects if copy_local: false. Just in order to be able to set their Private to false. Yes, this will make projects less "clean" but avoiding redundant copies in several projects in a large solution may be important.

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[nightroman]

According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/package-references-in-project-files ExcludeAssets with runtime should do the trick

    <PackageReference Include="Suave" Version="2.2.1">
      <ExcludeAssets>runtime</ExcludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>

[nightroman]

TIL Yes, this does the trick. Thus, one "workaround" is using native .net sdk packaging instead of paket...

[forki]

can you please try? But you have to update the Paket.restore.targets file

[forki]

urgs that didn't work

[forki]

deploying another version.

[nightroman]

Paket 5.156.4 is doing exactly what I expect. The output contains just my library output. Thank you very much!

[atlemann]

I just switched a large solution from old SDK to new SDK and ran into this problem. I have Paket version 5.177.1. I have copy_local: false for one single package in my paket.dependencies file and after switching to new SDK style project I get that .dll and all it's transient deps into the bin/net461 folder. Before they were left out as expected.

I have tried looking at the paket.Restore.targets file to see if there is anything I could try there to fix this, but I guess I need some pointers in the right direction.

I see that ExcludeAssets is set to runtime if "%(PaketReferencesFileLinesInfo.AllPrivateAssets) == 'exclude'" Where is this set to exclude and why is it different from the line above where it checks for == true?

[atlemann]

I'm building using VS2017 by the way