provide a way to suppress dependencies in dotnet pack

[rohit21agrawal]

have an option to suppress all package references and framework assembly references in the output nupkg .

this is required for scenarios where package authors publish all their dependencies into the package itself (especially for tools package) and so do not need any dependency in the nuspec itself.

[rohit21agrawal]

closing this. Currently this can be achieved by setting Publish=true along with PrivateAssets=all

To apply it to every Package Reference, yo can use an ItemDefinitionGroup that does this.

[rohit21agrawal]

from @wli3
The default behavior of dotnet pack is to change package reference to dependency in nuspec. But the nupkg of global tools does not have package reference.
One way I found while still use dotnet pack is to change all PackageReference to PrivateAssets=all. However that breaks test project. Since the main project’s dependency cannot be accessed by the test project. And the only way to alter the dependency in dotnet pack is changing asset.json.
relate issue:
dotnet/cli#9109