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Christoph Henrici edited comment on MASSEMBLY-529 at 3/5/14 7:27 AM: --------------------------------------------------------------------- " I would even go as far as suggesting than optional dependencies should not get pulled in per default." 100% agreed. From my point of view it yields the plugin even useless at least in certain usage szenarios... optional means as i understand: a dependency which should NOT be included transitively by default, but only when explicitly included as Dependency. was (Author: chenrici): " I would even go as far as suggesting than optional dependencies should not get pulled in per default." 100% agreed. From my point of view it yields the plugin even useless... optional means as i understand: a dependency which should NOT be included transitively by default, but only when explicitly included as Dependency. > Provide a way to exclude optional dependencies of a module from the assembly > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MASSEMBLY-529 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-529 > Project: Maven Assembly Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: moduleSet > Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-5, 2.2 > Reporter: Oleg Kalnichevski > > Presently optional dependencies of modules in a module set always get pulled > in and there appears to be no way to exclude all optional dependencies other > than explicitly excluding them one by on -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)