How to exclude a direct dependency of a Maven Plugin

Question

I want to exclude a direct dependency of a Maven plugin and the approach described in this answer does not work (as indicated by this comment).

As a particular examp

Answer 1

Up until now there hasn't been any reason to do this, but this seems like a valid one. Most clean solution I can think of is allowing to override the scope with "none" for plugin dependencies.

I've created MNG-6222 for it, not sure if we'll fix this for a Maven3, but it makes sense to do it at least for the next major.