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

<PropertyGroup>
    <NuspecFile>App.nuspec</NuspecFile>
</PropertyGroup>

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.