[FLUME-1043] SDK should mark slf4j deps as optional

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Assignee: Mike Percy
• Reporter: Mike Percy
• Created: 22/Mar/12 08:26
• Updated: 22/Mar/12 18:14
• Resolved: 22/Mar/12 17:44

Description

The flume SDK marks the slf4j deps as normal deps due to test scope transitively affecting flume core. However a better approach is to use optional, which has the effect we want (even though the semantics are a bit off).