dotnet pack project references

Question

I quite like separating functionality across a few assemblies, for example a facade to a data provider, contracts for the data provider and the data provider implementation itse

Answer 1

A possible way to achieve the needed is to use a custom .nuspec file where you can specify the dlls you want to be packed

    App.nuspec

Having this, dotnet pack will produce the package with respect to MyPackage.nuspec.

Furthermore, if you have like 3 projects with contracts and implementation and you don't want to add 3 package references, you can create a meta-package that simply has those 3 as dependencies and reference that single meta-package.