Ah, I didn’t realize you were talking about fixing the maven-bundle-plugin 
rather than individual felix projects.

It’s been a long time…. can’t you just mark the included dependencies 
“provided” and the karaf tooling will come up with something appropriate?

thanks
david jencks

> On Aug 15, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The functionality of the maven-bundle-plugin has some points of
> comparison to the maven-shade-plugin. The shade plugin can be asked to
> combine multiple artifacts into one big artifact; when you do that,
> the default is to publish a pom that reflects that some of the
> dependencies are now included in the resulting artifact by removing
> them from the the published pom -- the dependency-reduced pom. For
> example, if you have a dependency on (e.g.) com.google.guava:guava,
> and you tell shade to incorporate it into your artifact, the d-r-p
> will not include guava.
> 
> When you use Embed-Dependencies in the bundle plugin, you are doing
> something comparable. If you 'inline' them, you are doing something,
> well, identical, in that the embedded content is now available for
> both OSGi and non-OSGi consumers.
> 
> (I'm not in a position to consider wandering from Maven to Gradle, so
> my focus is on the Maven universe.)
> 
> The scenario that hit me was this:
> 
> 1. I have a pom for a bundle that uses Embed-Dependencies to pull in
> about 12 non-OSGi jars.
> 2. I used the result as part of a Karaf feature
> 3. I had to exclude all those embedded jars, one-by-one, from the
> Karaf feature, to avoid having them all show up as 'wrapped' bundles.
> 
> So, I was thinking, wouldn't it be handy if I could choose to tell the
> maven-bundle-plugin to act like the maven-shade-plugin. For this to be
> fully-useful, the commonly-used 'depends' plugin (that produces
> metadata read by Karaf rather than reading the real POM) would have to
> sucessfully consume the 'reduced' version.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:23 PM, David Jencks
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I certainly haven’t rejected the idea because I don’t know what 
>> dependency-reduced poms are.  I have no problem with the effect you describe 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Note that some parts of felix are trying to move to gradle/bndtools based 
>> builds (dependency manager and scr at least) I’m not familiar with where the 
>> poms come from in those projects…. but you might want to look at other ones 
>> first.
>> 
>> thanks
>> david jencks
>> 
>>> On Aug 15, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Has there been previous consideration of giving the
>>> maven-bundle-plugin the ability to make a dependency-reduced-pom to
>>> reflect embedded dependencies? When using the Karaf tooling that looks
>>> at Maven dependencies, the presence of non-bundle dependencies (that
>>> have been embedded) leads to unwanted 'wrap' bundles.
>>> 
>>> I would take a run at this unless it's been considers and rejected as a 
>>> concept.
>> 

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