[jira] Created: (MNG-2031) Easily disable / exclude transitive dependencies

["Guillaume Nodet (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Easily disable / exclude transitive dependencies
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         Key: MNG-2031
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2031
     Project: Maven 2
        Type: New Feature

  Components: Dependencies  
    Versions: 2.0.2    
    Reporter: Guillaume Nodet
    Priority: Critical


Transitive dependencies are cool, however, the limitations are very difficult to work around.
  * specification dependencies
  * jarjar dependencies (spring.jar includes all spring-xxx.jar, so no need to include them)
  * remove warning on relocations for transitive dependencies (it's always difficult to tell users: that's not an error, and we can not do anything)
  * poms on ibiblio are all in m2 and never change
  * exclusions for transitive deps can be overriden if manually included

One cool feature would be to allow disabling transitive dependencies in the following ways:
  * disable all transitive deps
  * enable transitive dependencies only for modules of the same project
  * enable transitive deps for specific groupIds
  * disable transitive deps for specific groupIds
  * have a tag/attribute to exclude all transitive deps for one dependency (instead of having list all exclusions)


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