[MNG-2163] Allow plugin dependencies to be excluded

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Environment: Windows XP, Cygwin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mark Hobson
• Created: 21/Mar/06 10:52
• Updated: 08/Feb/20 15:39
• Resolved: 22/Jan/14 20:32

Description

Need to add an exclusions block in the POM for plugins. The use-case is excluding slf4j-simple
from the jetty6 plugin in order to use an alternative slf4j implementation.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MNG-2448 Can not exclude a dependency from a plugin
• is duplicated by: MNG-2969 Unable to exclude a dependency from a needed plugin
• is related to: MNG-2972 Ignores version of plugin dependency specified in my pom
• relates to: MNG-3196 Allow exclusion of a certain transitive dependency across all direct dependencies.