Is there a way to install a NuGet package without all of its dependencies? - visual-studio

Question

In a Visual Studio 2015 C# project, is there any way to selectively install the components of a NuGet package? (Aside from manually adding references)
Background:
I have been using the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp package recently. This package contains several libraries that I need:
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis
Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp
It also installs many libraries that these are dependent on. For the features I am using, I only need these two:
System.Collections.Immutable
System.Reflection.Metadata
But it also installs many more libraries that I never need:
System.AppContext
System.ComponentModel.Composition
System.Console
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace
System.IO.FileSystem
System.IO.FileSystem.Primatives
System.Numerics
System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms
System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding
System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages
System.Threading.Thread
System.Xml
System.Xml.Linq
System.Xml.XmlDocument
System.Xml.XPath
Systen.Xml.XPath.XDocument
Is there someway I can check the boxes of the libraries I want when installing the package?

Answer 1

According to the docs , there only -IgnoreDependencies command could help us ignore all dependencies. We could not ignore part of dependencies.
But you could implement your requirement with -IgnoreDependencies, please refer to following steps:
Install the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp package without any dependence:
Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp -IgnoreDependencies
Install the dependence package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis. Common package without any dependence:
Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Common -IgnoreDependencies
Install the dependence package System.Collections.Immutable and System.Reflection.Metadata package:
Install-Package System.Collections.Immutable
Install-Package System.Reflection.Metadata
If you do not need to use the dependences of “System.Collections.Immutable”and “System.Reflection.Metadata”, you can also use the same option to ignore dependences.