[MNG-1607] Provide the ability to globally exclude a dependency

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: Plugins and Lifecycle
• Assignee: Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez
• Reporter: Barry Kaplan
• Created: 17/Nov/05 20:02
• Updated: 23/May/06 17:24
• Resolved: 23/May/06 17:24

Description

Some dependencies you simply never want downloaded no matter what. For example, when using jdk 1.5 xml-apis.jar causes headaches. But many projects require this dependency.

Therefore it would be nice to support a 'never' download setting. Maybe:

<dependencyManagement>
<excludedDependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
</dependency>
</excludedDependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

(Or is there another way to do this now?)

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-1977 Global dependency exclusions