[jira] Commented: (MNG-1977) Global dependency exclusions

["Stephan Niedermeier (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Stephan Niedermeier commented on MNG-1977:
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Hi,

I'm wondering why this, in my eyes, important feature won't be fixed in 2.0x but in 2.1 (next year)? The initial request is more than one year old!

My project depends on some jars but NOT on their dependencies. Neither at compile nor at test or runtime. Therefore it makes no sense to download these dependecies at all.

With the current mechanism of using the <exclusions/> element within each dependency separately causes a lot of boilerplate configuration steps.  In my case for over 30(!) dependencies!

I like the idea of having a global <exclusion/> element within <dependencyManagement/> or  allowing wildcards for artifactId and groupId or intrdoucing an attribute transitive="false" on the <dependency/> element.

Please make this a higher prio, thanks!

> Global dependency exclusions
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-1977
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1977
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: POM
>            Reporter: Kees de Kooter
>             Fix For: 2.1.x
>
>
> I depend on some libraries, which in turn depend on something
> (which in turn depend on something) that I don't want, because I declare
> some other artifact in my pom.xml.
> A concrete example: I don't want that the artifact "xerces" is imported in
> my project because I declare to depend on  "xercesImpl" which ships newer
> libraries but with the same namespaces.
> I guess I would need an "exclude transitive dependency at all", either
> globally or from this and that artifact. I saw the <exclusions> tag, but it
> forces me to be very verbose and have exact control on what is required by a
> dependency.

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