Hi, please send a patch if you could. Thank you!

This would be great. It may also be cool if we could have an optional package for the configuration (web.config changes, webactivator, app_start, app_data/combres.xml).

Something like Elmah does (elmah and elmah.corelibary).

I rather manage these things myself and I find myself deleting all startup work done by Combres on installing the nuget package.

Just an idea!

I've been thinking about this. This makes it more difficult for some users who might want to use Combres out of the box w/o having to add additional packages. I can understand why unused assemblies pollute the codebase, although I'm not sure how they can make the app any less secure. This is a trade-off, in the mean time I'd prefer keep things as-is.

If you want to get rid of those dependencies, it's very easy, just take the latest source code and delete necessary minifier/filter classes under Engine folder, since Combres only link these classes via reflection, you don't have to make any other change.