I'm an old COBOL programmer that has self-taught myself web development over the last decade. I've always used asp.net for developing and when I first started out I had no clue what I was doing. There are some cases I still don't :). That brings me to my question. When I first started out I didn't know what Nuget packages were so if I wanted to use something like bootstrap I would would download the files from the bootstrap website and load them into my project in a Scripts folder. To call the files I added them into the bundling function provided by asp.net. I've since discovered Nuget Manager and keep my bootstrap versions updated through it, but I've always been afraid to remove the reference to these files from the bundling package.
Today I'm trying to upgrade bootstrap from 4.6 to 5.1, but I'm getting an error. If I go into my bundling package and comment out the reference to bootstrap my error goes away. So my question is, if I'm using Nuget to manage my packages, is it safe to remove them from the bundling package? I feel like the answer is "yes it's safe" but was hoping for confirmation and maybe an explanation on how and if Nuget and bundling work together, if at all...