[jira] Updated: (MNG-947) add optional flag for dependencies

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-947?page=all ]

Brett Porter updated MNG-947:
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    Summary: add optional flag for dependencies  (was: add optional scope for dependencies)

may not want compile scope in the source project, so make it separate to that.

> add optional flag for dependencies
> ----------------------------------
>
>          Key: MNG-947
>          URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-947
>      Project: Maven 2
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: maven-artifact
>     Reporter: Brett Porter
>     Assignee: Brett Porter
>      Fix For: 2.0-beta-2

>
> Original Estimate: 4 hours
>         Remaining: 4 hours
>
>  "optional" should be equivalent to "compile" but not passed on in transitive deps. This will allow us to repair dependencies like dom4j and avoid a lot of <exclusions/>

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