Publish: PrivateAssets=All not honored on ProjectReference items

Steps

1. Create a new .NET Core Console App
2. Add a new .NET Standard Class Library
3. Reference the class library from the console app:

   <ProjectReference Include="..\ClassLibrary1\ClassLibrary1.csproj"
                     PrivateAssets="All" />
   

4. Run dotnet publish on the console app.

Unexpected Results

• ClassLibrary1.dll is copied to the the ‘publish’ directory.

[nguerrera]

Using Private=false metadata instead of ReferenceOutputAssembly=false should work for the compile against but do not copy semantic. (This is another data point that the term private is a poor choice for impacting copying. Classic reference metadata and nuget metadata are overloading it with opposite meaning. 😦)

[Turnerj]

I found a blog post which does go into a workaround for this with a custom target though it would be great if this worked out-of-the-box.