Currently, the answer to all of your questions is "no".
However it seems like you have some not unreasonable ideas here, so it
might be worth filing a JIRA Enhancement request so something along
these lines could be included in M2.1.x if the Maven team decided to
implement them.
Wayne
On 5/11/0
How can I include a dependency's optional dependency without
adding the optional dependency to the pom?
As an example, shale-test has an optional dependency on commons-digester. Since
my application does not use commons-digester, I do not have it defined as
a dependency in the pom. When the tes
Hi,
I am presently converting our projects from maven 1.1 to maven 2.
I must say that the transitive dependencies help a lot to reduce the pom and
makes upgrades easier.
But I would like to include optional dependencies as well, without having to
explicitly include them myself in the pom.
For
