How can I stop maven from downloading transitive dependencies?

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I have a Maven call that downloads artifacts for the purpose of running integration tests:

mvn -Dmdep.useRepositoryLayout=true -Dmdep.copyPom=true -Dmdep.useBaseVersion=true dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=deps -DexcludeTransitive=true -e

The pom consists purely of dependencies, nothing else. There are other scripts that pick up the artifacts from the deps dir and runs tests on them.

Now, my problem is this: Even though Maven only copies the artifacts I want into deps, it still downloads all transitive dependencies to the Maven cache, which is a waste of time and bandwidth (the artifacts are compiled on another continent).

Is there some way I can stop maven from downloading all the transitive dependencies into the cache?

Maven 3.0.4

Solutions using other tools like gradle or ant+ivy are also welcome, as long as they can create the maven repo layout in deps.

Answer

Maven has limited facilities to control dependency scope and the documentation is not the best. Here are a few for reference:

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Source : Link , Question Author : clacke , Answer Author : Paul Sweatte

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