alias for dependencies

[Romain Manni-Bucau <rm...@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

i don't think we can but it would be great to be able to alias
dependencies. For instance:

in a dependencyManagement i could define:

<dependency>
 <artifactId>...</>
 <groupId>...</>
 <version>...</>
 <alias>foo</alias>
</dependency>

then later in children poms use:

<dependency> <!--  an attribute would be better here -->
    <alias>foo</alias>
</dependency>

It would allow:
1) to get smaller dependencies (less verbosity)
2) (this one is much more important) dynamic dependencies

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