[jira] Commented: (MNG-3620) maven-dependency-analyzer finds too many used dependencies

["Brian Fox (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Brian Fox commented on MNG-3620:
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Cool. We should introduce a flag to the plugin to optionally ignore this, but looks good

> maven-dependency-analyzer finds too many used dependencies
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-3620
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3620
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Dependencies
>    Affects Versions: Shared Components
>            Reporter: Matthew Beermann
>         Attachments: MNG-3620-maven-dependency-analyzer.patch
>
>
> I'll just quote the post from our internal mailing list:
> "I don't like that plugin - it has reported dozens of missing dependencies that were unnecessary for me, so I stopped using it. The most common example is when you have a dependency on a project that has a dependency on Xerces, Xalan or some other XML project and your project has java.xml.* imports, which you're resolving from the JDK, it gives a higher priority to external dependencies, even if another project introduces them, than it does to JDK libraries."
> I've got a (possible) patch coming up in a few...

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