Home: Targets not imported from dependency of a package reference

[emgarten]

_From @bhugot on November 17, 2017 23:11_

Hello,

If you create a package that, as a dependency, contains a target, the targets are not used by the project by referencing it.

 |_ NugetA
     |_ NugetB
        |_ build.targets

If we install NugetB on Project, the targets are applied.

How to solve this problem because I do not want to apply the targets of the dependency.

Thanks

_Copied from original issue: dotnet/project-system#2973_

[emgarten]

_From @Pilchie on November 20, 2017 16:24_

@rrelyea @emgarten - this sounds like it should be moved to nuget/Home?

[emgarten]

@bhugot can you share the reference in NuGetA's nuspec to NuGetB, does it have exclude=build?

[bhugot]

Hello, i found the problem I am using the nuget explorer and didn't see some hidden property in generated nuspec.
It's sad that we can't exclude a targets from the project A build but include it for the project who use nuget of project A. need to use nuspec to achieve this.

[emgarten]

It's sad that we can't exclude a targets from the project A build but include it for the project who use nuget of project A. need to use nuspec to achieve this.

You can do this by setting PrivateAssets=None on the project reference. The nuspec captures the state of the project. In your scenario if all packages were projects this would not flow either.

[jainaashish]

closing as by design.