they are _transitive_ dependencies :) but you name them _secondary_ dependencies :)
you would want to read this document: http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-project-dependencies.html On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:41 AM, monkeyden <monk...@monkeyden.com> wrote: > > I have the scope of some 3rd party dependencies set to "provided", but keep > getting all the secondary dependencies in my build. I have 3 versions of > ant, when I don't even need 1. > > How best to prevent secondary dependencies from being added to the build? > > Do the secondary dependencies inherit scope from the primary dependency or > do they sneak in? I'd prefer not to explicitly do any of this for > secondaries. > > thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Primary-and-secondary-dependencies-tp24647841p24647841.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- - juven