I think the gist of this thread is that, yes, we can add optional or exclusions -- but why not simply add a dependency attribute such as::
<dependency transitive="off" > or even <dependencies transitive="off" > Although it seems that this should be a project-specific property and should not be transitive itself. In other words, it should be ignored if it is found in a child dependency so that if one requests transitive behavior (in the project being assembled) they will get what they expect. On 11/21/05, Eric Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > I agree with you. The pom can be improved greatly by specifying only oro > and > commons-codec as "mandatory" dependencies. All others should be optional. > > I'll watch closely this bug :) > > Thanks. > > Eric > > On 11/21/05, Carlos Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >
