Github user srowen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5354#issuecomment-92512638 Yes, let's call the shaded B artifact B'. Are you saying that the published artifact of A shades B and C? yes, then it contains B' and C' and they are inseparable. It isn't usual to publish a shaded artifact like that unless it is an assembly / uber jar, which is not what projects depend on when consuming via Maven. A would still show a dependency on B and C in the POM, at least, if it were shaded at assembly time using something like the shade plugin. You are saying that A shades B and C but then declares C as a direct, separate dependency? yes, then it shows a direct dependency on C, though I claim it already had a transitive dependency on C in Maven. We may still be talking about different things when it comes to what is published. But, what is A here, `tachyon-client`? I'm not sure it's relevant to what I am getting at. If C includes `commons-beanutils`, why exclude it? and, why does C include `hadoop-core` for example? Again, if I understand what's what here.
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