+1, we've been using this trick for some years now to be sure nobody could send their logs basically to /dev/null without being noticed. In the meantime, as we actually control the corp pom, we also both added the exclusions everywhere we could + enabled a bannedDependencies on commons-logging.
Granted, it kind of became a " (2) belt(s) and braces" solution, but this works perfectly fine :-). HTH 2014/1/20 Aldrin Leal <ald...@leal.eng.br> > (TL;DR: Use this repo and the versions on your dependencyMgmt: > http://version99.qos.ch/) > > a hack, but works like a charm: > > > http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com.br/2007/10/announcement-version-99-does-not-exist.html > > > -- > -- Aldrin Leal, <ald...@leal.eng.br> > Master your EC2-fu! Get the latest ekaterminal public beta > http://www.ingenieux.com.br/products/ekaterminal/ > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Stephen Connolly < > stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The hack way I would use is to create an intermediate "wrapper" project > and > > then you can define exclusions on that wrapper at the pom level directly. > > > > Other than that you just have to wait for model version 5.0.0 when the > > <provides> element that I want to introduce would allow either slf4j's > > binder to advertise that it "provides" commons-logging, or you would be > > able to state that in your <dependency> directly > > > > > > On 20 January 2014 09:03, Stephane Nicoll <stephane.nic...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Has anybody thought (or worked on) the ability to exclude dependencies > > from > > > the import of a pom for a given project. > > > > > > Let's say that project S uses commons-logging and we use that project > in > > > our project. We have something like > > > > > > <dependency> > > > <groupId>....</groupId> > > > <artifactId>the-s-project</artifactId> > > > <version>...</version> > > > <type>pom</type> > > > <scope>import<scope> > > > </dependency> > > > > > > Now I'd like to exclude the "commons-logging" dependency from the whole > > > project so that I can use the slf4j binder instead. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > S. > > > > > > > -- > Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net > Sauvez un arbre, > Mangez un castor ! nbsp;! >
