Hello everyone,
I am using Maven-2.0.9 and I have a project A which depends on a couple of
classes from project B. So obviously, i have a dependency in my pom.xml as
follows:
<dependency>
<groupId>org</groupId>
<artifactId>projectB</artifactId>
</dependency>
But the project B has a long list of transitive dependencies, none of which
are required in project A. I was looking for a way to disable those
transitive dependencies from being pulled into project A. One option would
be to add numerous "exclude" elements to the dependency. But this is not
practical, given the long list of transitive dependencies.
I was looking for something like the following:
<dependency>
<groupId>org</groupId>
<artifactId>projectB</artifactId>
<transitive>false</transitive>
</dependency>
A "transitive" child element to the dependency element which can then be
configured to disable transitive dependencies from being pulled in. From
what i learn based on my discussion about this on #maven IRC, there's no
technical reason why this can't be done/allowed.
It would be useful to have this feature in Maven to disable transitive
dependencies. Any thoughts?
P.S: Is this the right list or should this be in maven-dev list?
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