Are you noticing this in command line or in VS.NET IDE? C# compiler automatically references all assemblies listed in csc.rsp file. Use /noconfig opion on your commandline to disable the use of this file.
IDE does not use this rsp file. I would be very surprised if you observe this behavior in IDE.
Hope this helps,
Appan
ASP.NET Team
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