title: What is the point of Nuget packages?
body: <p>Maybe I'm doing something wrong or expressing pure ignorance here, but I can't really see how Nuget packages are beneficial? I recently decided to install a number of Nuget packages to replace the static DLLs in my application. When I inspect the folders that are created by the packages they seem to include many different versions of the DLL all nested under an array of sub directories.</p>
  
  <p>Don't all these files, many of which appear to be redundant increase the overall size of the application and slow down the publish and deploy routine? Also which items should be placed into source control?</p>
  
  <p>Like I said I may be missing something here but can anybody enlighten me on the virtues of Nuget packages? I'm starting to think that a simple dll in the bin folder worked perfectly fine?</p>