How to disable transitive dependency?

[Eric Jacob]

Hi,

Putting the following dependency results in 72 jars downloaded in
WEB-INF/lib!

<dependency>
<groupId>acegisecurity</groupId>
<artifactId>acegi-security</artifactId>
<version>0.9.0</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

Of course, I can exclude unecessary dependencies, but it's a real pain. A
better solution would be to disable transitive dependencies all together. Is
it supported?

Thanks.

Eric