Exclude dependency in a profile

Question

I have a maven module which has some dependencies. In a certain profile, I want to exclude some of those dependencies (to be exact, all dependencies with a certain group id). Th

Answer 1

Bit dirty but lightweight solution is to use import.

Unlike the other scopes you could use this:

• will disable compile-time and runtime dependecies; unlike provided or runtime which disables only one at a time
• won't mess up your test scope
• you don't need to specify path to some dummy jar as would system scope require

Nothing gets imported as long as you use this hack outside dependencyManagement.