"pgier" wrote : | I haven't heard anything about an option to exclude all transitive dependencies though. Is this something that you would really want? Then you would always have to update your transitive deps when any of the direct deps changed versions. It seems like this would have similar maintenance issues, just at a different time. | It certainly allows you to be very explict about what you want and understand what your real dependencies are. :-) e.g. I don't care that JBossXB defines apache-xxx:1.2.3, I want to use apache-xxx:2.3.4 Currently I don't even know that it using it at all without some nontrivial investigation. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107800#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...