I guess that you are mixing two terms: project inheritence (dependencies are
already inherited and you can use this feature)
and transitive dependecies. Support for transitive dependencies is planned
since a long time 
and already exists in m2.

Michal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Mattox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 10:46 AM
> To: Maven-users
> Subject: Dependency Inheritance
> 
> 
> I have a project A that depends on project B.  Project B has 10 JAR
> dependencies.  I've found that I must list the 10 JAR dependencies in
> Project A's project.xml file.  Is there a way to inherit 
> dependencies?  I
> understand there is a potential problem with version 
> conflicts (project A
> wants to use a newer version of commons logging than project 
> B) but at the
> same time I think having to duplicate these JARs in every 
> project.xml is
> troubling.  In my case project A is called "common" and is 
> used by 15 other
> projects.  Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Mattox
> 
> 
> 

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