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Brian Fox closed MNG-2997.
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Assignee: Brian Fox
Resolution: Fixed
Already in the docs:
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* <Optional dependencies>
- If project Y depends on project Z, the owner of project Y can mark project
Z
as an optional dependency, using the "optional" element. When project X
depends on project Y, X will
depend only on Y and not on Y's optional dependency Z. The owner of
project X may then
explicitly add a dependency on Z, at her option. (It may be helpful to
think of optional
dependencies as "excluded by default.")
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AFAIK, optional has nothing to do with scope, only transitivity of consumers of
your project.
> Dependency mechanism page should describe the 'optional' element
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> Key: MNG-2997
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2997
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation: Introductions
> Affects Versions: 2.0.6
> Reporter: Wendy Smoak
> Assignee: Brian Fox
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Documentation Deficit
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> The introduction-to-dependency-mechanism page should explain how the
> 'optional' element combines with the 'scope' element.
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
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