Support for installing packages to specific assembly

[CDTR-MattConroy]

Description

It would be very useful to install packages to a specific assembly. To be able to install a package only for use in the Editor or for Testing purposes. Are there any plans to support this?

[locus84]

Disable automatic referencing of assemblies
To disable the automatic referencing of assemblies of a NuGet package you can set the autoReferenced attribute of a package inside the packages.config to false. Currently this setting is not available from UI.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<packages>
    <package id="Serilog" version="2.12.0" autoReferenced="false" />
</packages>

I think this functionality solves issue for you.
you can create editor only assembly definition and connect it on your needs.

[JoC0de]

Hi @CDTR-MattConroy
Unity allows you to specify witch packages (dll's) are imported to other assemblies in two ways:

1. You e.g. install Serilog and mark it as not autoReferenced so it is not imported in any other assembly (auto generated or created from .asmdef). To include it in a assembly it than need to be explicitly listed in the .asmdef.
2. You enable "Override References" in the .asmdef and list all packages (dll's) you need to be imported (referenced).

Doing this from NuGetForUnity is probably not so easy / not the most strait forward way for the user.

[CDTR-MattConroy]

Excellent, that seems to do the trick for now. Ideally NuGetForUnity would function a little more like Visual Studio's NuGet browser in that you can choose to install to specific projects / assemblies. It would be nice to have the same functionality here to select which assemby(ies) to install to, or all by default