The problem is that the pom can be improved to add some of them as optional.
I'll solve that when solving http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-161.

On 11/21/05, Eric Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to use all the Acegi's features, sure you need all these jars.
> But since I don't need single sign on (cas), ldap or jsp support (directory,
> taglibs) or caching (ehcache), why should I have these dependencies included
> in my application?
>
> I think transitive dependency is great, but sometime it's just better to
> turn it off and specify by hand the dependencies you want ot use...
>
> Eric
>
> On 11/21/05, Eric Biesterfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >
> > I think there's something more wrong if a jar says it has dependencies
> > and it doesn't actually need them.
> >
> > Are you sure you don't need these? If so, consider using your own
> > repository before ibiblio and strip these of their dependencies.
> >
> > On 11/21/05, Eric Jacob < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi John,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your suggestion. It worths a look! But I still think the
> > ability
> > > to disable transitive dependency would be a good thing. It just doesn't
> > feel
> > > right to me to exclude more dependencies than I really need.
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > On 11/18/05, John Tolentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Eric,
> > > >
> > > > If you look at it's pom
> > > > (
> > > >
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/maven2/acegisecurity/acegi-security/0.9.0/acegi-security-0.9.0.pom
> > > > ),
> > > > this artifact have 21 direct dependencies. Exclude those and the other
> > > > transitive dependencies will be excluded as well. You can easily do
> > this
> > > > if you copy those dependencies from the artifact's pom and paste it to
> > > > your exclusions. A find and replace for "dependency" to "exclusion"
> > > > within your copied text won't take that much time.
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > > Eric Jacob wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >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
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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