In Maven, is there a global way to exclude a dependency? Perhaps we just need 
to show people how to do this?

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> On 2016/08/13, at 8:54, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> However, as to #3, it looks like we may need to extend this upgrade epic to 
> non-Apache projects if possible to try and fix up the dependencies.
> 
> Or wouldn't it be a neat feature for Maven to just transitively ban a 
> dependency and provide a replacement? Perhaps this is more of a build tool 
> problem at this point.
> 
>> On 12 August 2016 at 18:51, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It may sound somewhat smug, but OSGi doesn't really have the dependency hell 
>> problems addressed there. It has other annoyances, but you can run multiple 
>> versions of the same library in the same JVM without them even knowing about 
>> each other for instance. Plus, OSGi users have a full logging service pack 
>> called pax-logging (I commit there sometimes) which pulls together all the 
>> common logging APIs and redirects them to log4j 1.2, log4j 2.x, or logback, 
>> along with some additional contextual data which I find pointless honestly.
>> 
>>> On 12 August 2016 at 18:05, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Just read this thread:
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6305
>>> 
>>> Concerns: 
>>> * User-supplied logging configurations would break 
>>> * Spark code to suppress some overly verbose logging in dependencies (which 
>>> ignore config?) -not sure about impact 
>>> * POM changes to exclude log4j 1.2 - Spark has many many dependencies which 
>>> bring it back in 
>>> 
>>> Mikael, let me know if I missed something. 
>>> 
>>> We can do something about #1. 
>>> Not sure about #2 and #3. 
>>> 
>>> Remko
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>>> On 2016/08/13, at 7:38, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, really, what's the alternative?
>>>> 
>>>> And I do think that completing that Log4j1ConfigurationFactory would be a 
>>>> great way to get people to migrate if they don't even need to update 
>>>> configs. Though I'd hate to come across one of those configs in the wild 
>>>> because it's not nearly as well documented as the 2.x style configs are.
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 August 2016 at 15:45, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Dropping Log4j 1 and doing what instead? Stop logging altogether?  
>>>>> Logback’s configuration isn’t compatible either.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ralph
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There seem to be quite some frustration in some other Apache projects 
>>>>>> about migrating from Log4j 1. Especially around configration. Some seem 
>>>>>> to consider dropping Log4j completely instead of going for Log4j 2.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have taken on Spark, Hadoop and Zookeeper; see links to their Jira 
>>>>>> issues from LOG4J2-1473. I could need some help.
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
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