[MNG-5866] A way to replace a transitive dependency

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.3
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Environment: all
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Henry Hoendervangers
• Created: 30/Jul/15 13:44
• Updated: 31/Jul/15 18:16
• Resolved: 31/Jul/15 18:16

Description

we need a way to replace a transitive dependency. It is needed because the dependency:analyze will throw a warning if you exclude the transitive dependency and declare another dependency to replace the transitive dependency. For example:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-tools</artifactId>
  <scope>test</scope>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>freemarker</groupId>
      <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
  <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
</dependency>

this will cause dependency:analyze to throw a warning on the org.freemarker:freemarker dependency because it's unused.

possible sollution:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-tools</artifactId>
  <scope>test</scope>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <groupId>freemarker</groupId>
      <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
  <inclusions>
    <inclusion>
      <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
      <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
    </inclusion>
  </inclusions>
</dependency>

org.freemarker:freemarker can now be marked as transitive. It would also be nice to be able to replace a transitive dependency with more than 1 dependency.