Add ability to exclude all transitive dependencies except those specified as
inclusions
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Key: MNG-702
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-702
Project: Maven 2
Type: Improvement
Versions: 2.0-alpha-3
Reporter: Ken Weiner
Currently there is an ability to specify an optional <exclusions> element as a
child of <dependency> within a POM. This has the effect of excluding one or
more of a dependency's transitive dependencies.
It is often the case that a dependency itself has many dependencies needed for
compilation, but are not necessarily needed at runtime.
This is a request to add an optional <inclusions> element as a child to
<dependency> within a POM so that it is possible to express the instruction
"Don't get any of the transitive dependencies except for X, Y, Z, etc." For
example:
<dependency>
<groupId>springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
<version>1.2.2</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<inclusions>
<inclusion>
<groupId>hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>
</inclusion>
</inclusions>
</dependency>
Brett Porter pointed out on the maven users mailing list that this approach
could have some pitfalls, but that I should still submit the issue for
discussion.
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