On 1/18/06, Alessio Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a way to specify in my pom.xml that i don't want a certain > artifact? I depend on some libraries, which in turn depend on something > (which in turn depend on something) that I don't want, because I declare > some other artifact in my pom.xml. > > A concrete example: I don't want that the artifact "xerces" is imported in > my project because I declare to depend on "xercesImpl" which ships newer > libraries but with the same namespaces. > > I guess I would need an "exclude transitive dependency at all", either > globally or from this and that artifact. I saw the <exclusions> tag, but it > forces me to be very verbose and have exact control on what is required by a > dependency. > > I hope I have been clear, and thanks in advance for any help, > > -- > Alessio Pace. > Hi Alessio,
I posted a similar question some 10 days ago. I received the following answer: Seems to be a transitive dependency issue. Check this out: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/FAQs#FAQs-CanIdisabletransitivedependencies%3F Which is of course not what we want. Maybe we should submit a feature request in JIRA. Kees --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
