Hi all.

As a side-note: the current "provided" scope is not transitive, which IMHO doesn't make much sense. After all, if your environment magically provides dependency A that assures you that it also provides dependency B, then this should effectively mean that both A and B are provided. Or am I missing something?

Having a scope that's like "provided" but is transitive would be a usefully addition to the current list of scopes.

FWIW, a plugin I wrote to bundle up Java benchmarks (as JARs within JARs) would benefit from this. See <http://www.plugins.scalabench.org/modules/dacapo-benchmark-maven-plugin/usage.html#How_to_Declare_the_Benchmarks_Dependencies> for a description of how "provided" is currently used.

Best wishes,

Andreas

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