"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | If foo wants to use scott version 3 (provided by acme2) then it must also use | ales version 2 to be consistent. Another alternative would be for acme2 to declare a uses constraint such that it could fall back to ales version 1 when required. Then everybody would use ales version 1 with acme2's export of ales ignored. But that would fail in this example because it would still conflict on the scott package. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150334#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...