Excluding pack from project dependencies

A discussion on Clojurians Slack yesterday got me thinking on how the dependencies that pack uses mix with the dependencies of a project. Even if pack is behind an alias, a clojure -A:pack invocation in a project directory will pick up deps under :deps key, which might cause confusion at least (in the Slack discussion case, Jib debug logging was turned on). This can be avoided by having project dependencies behind an alias, and passing that alias to pack arguments, but not to clojure invocation, e.g.

clojure \
  -A:pack \ # <-- pick up pack
  -m mach.pack.alpha.jib \ # use pack command
  ...command args... \
  -A main  # <-- tell pack which project aliases to include

Also, it seems that clj.native-image does some work on excluding itself from the target classpath. I wonder if pack could do something like that.

[SevereOverfl0w]

There’s a new feature where you can have :deps in an alias to override the project dependencies.

This should fix the issue.

[viesti]

Best kind of fix, sorts it self out by waiting 😄 (well, have to update documentation though 😃).