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Andrew Williams commented on MNG-2316:
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How would you be able to use such information if it was available?
Perhaps your example is bad, but javax.mail is not just an API - it is an
implementation, so including it on it's own is perfect;y valid, no extra
implementation is needed.
If there was a purely api jar and you implement it with another artifact how
would we know about it?
> Add info to the poms for dependencies that implement an API or provide other
> dependencies
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>
> Key: MNG-2316
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2316
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Dependencies
> Affects Versions: 2.0.4
> Reporter: Carlos Sanchez
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.1.x
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>
> e.g.
> geronimo implementation of javamail could say
> <provides>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
> <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
> <version>...</version>
> </dependency>
> </provides>
> spring.jar pom could say
> <provides>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
> <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
> <version>...</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
> <version>...</version>
> </dependency>
> ...
> </provides>
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