Unable to exclude a dependency from a needed plugin
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Key: MNG-2969
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2969
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: 2.0.6
Reporter: Stefano Bagnara
When we add a "standard" dependency we can tune its dependency list using the
exclusions directive.
THis is not possible with plugins.
Let's say I add javacc-maven-plugin to my build/plugins section and the plugin
declared in its pom:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
And I know that this dependency is a compile dependency and I won't need it,
how can I tune my plugin inclusion so to not download plexus-utils?
in <pluginManagement> I can add new dependencies to plugin (WHY is this
needed?) but I cannot exclude existing dependencies: isn't this a bug?
I can add a new dependency to the plugin and add exclusions for this new
dependency but I cannot add an exclusion for the top-level dependencies.
Am I missing something?
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