Nuget package includes a lot of unnecessary dependencies

[hades200082]

Packages added when adding this nuget to a .net Framework 4.6.1 webforms application included...

  <package id="System.AppContext" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Collections" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Collections.Concurrent" version="4.0.12" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Console" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Debug" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Tools" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Diagnostics.Tracing" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Globalization" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Globalization.Calendars" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.IO" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.IO.Compression" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.IO.Compression.ZipFile" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.IO.FileSystem" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Linq" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Linq.Expressions" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Net.Http" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Net.Primitives" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Net.Sockets" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.ObjectModel" version="4.0.12" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Reflection" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Reflection.Extensions" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Reflection.Primitives" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Resources.ResourceManager" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Runtime" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.Extensions" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.Handles" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms" version="4.2.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Text.Encoding" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Text.Encoding.Extensions" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Text.RegularExpressions" version="4.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Threading" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Threading.Tasks" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Threading.Timer" version="4.0.1" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Xml.ReaderWriter" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />
  <package id="System.Xml.XDocument" version="4.0.11" targetFramework="net461" />

This seems a little excessive and many of these can't possibly be required by this library.

[jpierson]

You're right @hades200082, the dependencies you list really shouldn't be required for the simple extension method. If I get a chance perhaps I can see if there is a way to modernize this project.