Tibor Digana created MNG-5540:
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Summary: Simplyfied form of overridden scope on transitive
dependencies
Key: MNG-5540
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5540
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: 3.1.0
Reporter: Tibor Digana
Priority: Critical
I am thinking of a new feature since Maven's exclusion are two steps process in
practice.
In order to change the scope from compile to provided on transitive dependency
you exclude dependency via
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
<exludes>
<exclude>
... transitive dependency ...
</exclude>
</exludes>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Then put such transitive </dependency> with scope=provided which was excluded
above.
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
This is waste because you have to touch the exc.dependency twice and the POM
xml is getting huge.
Maybe another syntax would simplify:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
<includes/>
<include/>
... transitive dependency ...
<scope>provided</scope>
<include/>
<includes/>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Validation should fail if no such transitive dependency in includes section is
specified for the wrapping dependency.
If the transitive dependency is specified in other sections or inherited, the
scopes should be merged.
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