Quoting Jing Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Take a library as basic as commons-logging for an example. In its pom, it depends on avalon-framework, avalon's logkit, and a few other things, while depending on your logging configuration usually only part of those are actually _required_ at neither compile-time nor run-time.
"... at compile-time or run-time"
It's no wonder applications using maven typically have a bloated lib directory - especially when they use big "conglomerates" like spring or hibernate. OK, I'll stop before this turns into maven-bashing. 8-)
A more important correction: of course when it gets to maven a bloated "classpath" rather than lib is what I meant.
-- Jing
