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+Fallback Package Cache (LZMA)
+=============================
+
+The fallback package cache (commonly called the LZMA) is a set of NuGet packages that are bundled in the .NET Core SDK installers.
+The LZMA is a compressed file format, similar to a .zip.
+On first use or on install, the .NET Core CLI will expand this LZMA file, extracting the packages inside to %DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR%/sdk/NuGetFallbackFolder.
+
+## Requirements
+
+The following requirements are used to determine which packages go into the fallback package cache:
+
+ - A user should be able to restore the following templates and only use packages from the offline cache:
+    - `dotnet new console`
+    - `dotnet new library`
+    - `dotnet new web`
+    - `dotnet new razor`
+    - `dotnet new mvc`
+
+The following packages are NOT included in the offline cache.
+  - Packages required for standalone publishing, aka projects that set a Runtime Identifier during restore
+  - Packages required for F# and VB templates
+  - Packages required for  Visual Studio code generation in ASP.NET Core projects
+  - Packages required to restore .NET Framework projects
+  - Packages required to restore test projects, such as xunit, MSTest, NUnit
+
+The result of this typically means including the transitive graph of the following packages:
+
+  - Packages that match bundled runtimes
+    - Microsoft.NETCore.App
+    - Microsoft.AspNetCore.App
+    - Microsoft.AspNetCore.All
+  - Packages that Microsoft.NET.Sdk adds implicitly
+    - Microsoft.NETCore.App
+    - NETStandard.Library
+  - Packages that are a PackageReference/DotNetCliToolReference in basic ASP.NET Core templates. In addition to packages above, this typically includes:
+    - Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools{.DotNet}
+    - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design
+    - Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink
+
+### Example
+
+Given the following parameters:
+ - LatestNETCoreAppTFM = netcoreapp2.1
+ - DefaultRuntimeVersion = 2.1
+ - BundledRuntimeVersion = 2.1.8
+ - BundledAspNetRuntimeVersion = 2.1.7
+ - LatestNETStandardLibraryTFM = netstandard2.0
+ - BundledNETStandardLibraryVersion = 2.0.1
+
+The LZMA should contain
+  - Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.1.0 + netcoreapp2.1 dependencies (Microsoft.NET.Sdk will implicitly reference "2.1", which NuGet to 2.1.0)
+  - Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.1.8 + netcoreapp2.1 dependencies (Matches the runtime in shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.1.8/)
+  - Microsoft.AspNetCore.All/2.1.7 + netcoreapp2.1 dependencies (Matches the runtime in shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.All/2.1.7/)
+  - NETStandard.Library/2.0.1 + netstandard2.0 dependencies (Microsoft.NET.Sdk will implicitly reference "2.0.1")