> Do we really end up with everything from the top level in the lib > dir? What I'm thinking is something like this being in a 'user' project. > > <dependency> > <groupid>org.apache.myfaces</groupId> > <artifactId>tomahawk</artifactId> > </depdency> > > This will cause the transitive dependency thing to pull in everything > that tomahawk depends on but won't touch the top level pom as I > understand it anyway. Am I wrong about this?
Won't this be the case either way. The dependencies for tomahawk are the dependencies for tomahawk. It doesn't matter if Maven learns this exclusively from the tomahawk.pom or from a combination of myfaces.pom (parent) and tomahawk.pom. Is this reasoning correct? Sean
