[Bug] How can I opt out of including GUI libraries in my console projects?

[R2D221]

Library version used

4.56.0

.NET version

.net8.0-windows

Scenario

Other - please specify

Is this a new or an existing app?

The app is in production, and I have upgraded to a new version of MSAL

Issue description and reproduction steps

I'm using the SqlClient library provided by https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.SqlClient/5.1.4 . Apparently MSAL has been a dependency for this new SqlClient despite me not explicitly using it to connect to my SQL Server instances.

Everything was fine and dandy until this new version, which now takes a dependency on the WebView2 component. My projects, despite being console apps, use the target framework net8.0-windows because I use a couple Windows-specific APIs. MSAL didn't cause me any troubles until SqlClient decided to upgrade to version 4.56.0 which brings the unwanted packages.

I reported this in the SqlClient's repo (dotnet/SqlClient#2298), but apparently it was closed as not planned, bringing me here instead.

Relevant code snippets

No response

Expected behavior

Not to include any GUI dependencies on console projects.

Identity provider

Other

Regression

No response

Solution and workarounds

No response

[pmaytak]

@R2D221 This is a known behavior. We're looking into this. See the updates in #4468.

Closing this as a duplicate of #4468.