[MNG-3196] Allow exclusion of a certain transitive dependency across all direct dependencies.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Paul Gier
• Created: 07/Sep/07 09:40
• Updated: 02/Jul/14 08:44
• Resolved: 22/Jan/14 20:31

Description

I would like to be able to put exludes at the top level of dependencies so that it can easily be excluded from all transitive dependencies, instead of just excluding it from a single dependency at a time. For example assume that project1 and project2 both have transitive dependencies on different versions of project-trans:

<dependencies>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>com.stuff</groupId>
      <artifactId>project-trans</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.stuff</groupId>
    <artifactId>project1</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
  <dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.stuff</groupId>
    <artifactId>project2</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
  <dependency>
</dependencies>

In this example, the "project-trans" dependency would be exluded from both project1 and project2. It can be difficult to find all the locations of a transitively included dependency for a large project that has a large number of frequently changing dependencies.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-1977 Global dependency exclusions
• is related to: MNG-2163 Allow plugin dependencies to be excluded