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Unnecessary-looking dependencies

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New in Release 22 are a bunch of Maven dependencies that look like they should be compile-only, but are now required at runtime.

[INFO] +- com.google.guava:guava:jar:22.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:jar:1.3.9:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations:jar:2.0.18:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.google.j2objc:j2objc-annotations:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-annotations:jar:1.14:compile

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:8
Comments:28 (11 by maintainers)

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cgdeckercommented, Aug 2, 2017

@cpovirk’s conclusion above seems to have been that of the two options we have, both of which cause issues for some people in some way, we should stick with what we’re currently doing. So 23.0 will continue to have those dependencies as non-optional.

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guaicommented, Jan 15, 2018

This is madness Just make them provided. Its how they should be declared If this declaration causes bugs then these bugs are somewhere else

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