In your ivy xml, you would have something like this: <dependency org="org.apache.ivy" name="ivy" conf="your_conf->core(master),httpclient(optional)"> <exclude org="org.apache.commons" module="commons-compress" /> <!-- other excludes for "vfs", etc. --> </dependency>
The maven scope mapping does not provide a separate name to use for "httpclient" and "pack200" groups. But you can remove the extras. It might be easier to add the org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient dependency instead of excluding all others. Yes, if the ivy.xml was published you could do this more directly. ________________________________ From: Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2026 11:23 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Any idea why Ivy only publishes a POM and not an ivy.xml? On 2026-08-03, Milles, Eric (TR Technology) via dev wrote: > As a consumer, you can provide fallback. For example > conf="optional(runtime)". I don't believe this does what I want. Ivy has this in its dependency section <dependency On 2026-08-03, Milles, Eric (TR Technology) via dev wrote: > As a consumer, you can provide fallback. For example > conf="optional(runtime)". I don't believe this does what I want. Ivy has this in its dependency section <dependency org="org.apache.httpcomponents" name="httpclient" rev="${httpclient.version}" conf="default,httpclient->runtime,master"/> <dependency org="org.apache.commons" name="commons-compress" rev="${commons-compress.version}" conf="default,pack200->default,optional"> <exclude org="com.github.luben"/> <exclude org="org.brotli"/> <exclude org="org.tukaani"/> </dependency> ... both httpclient and commoms-compress end up as optional in the Maven POM. As a project that depends on Ivy I only want to pull in the dependencies required to use httpclient but not pack200 as I know nothing is going to use pack200 (or vfs, or jsch or ...). With an Ivy file I can say default->httpclient . Can I achieve the same with a POM alone? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
