Maven - Dependency Inheritance - Provided

Question

I make use of dependency POMs which I will then go and include into another projects as as dependency. The problem I am having is while it aggregates the POM with those depende

Answer 1

If a dependency is provided why can't that dependency be inherited with the same scope so I don't have to declare it?

It is inherited with the same scope. Given the following parent pom.xml:

  4.0.0
  com.stackoverflow.Q3597684
  root
  1.0-SNAPSHOT
  Q3597684 - Root
  pom
  
    
      javax.servlet
      servlet-api
      2.5
      provided
    
    
      junit
      junit
      3.8.1
      test
    
  

And the following pom.xml that inherits from the root artifact:

  4.0.0
  
    root
    com.stackoverflow.Q3597684
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
  
  child
  war
  Q3597684 - Child
  

Running mvn dependency:tree from the child gives the following output:

$ mvn dependency:tree[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Q3597684 - Child
[INFO]    task-segment: [dependency:tree]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] com.stackoverflow.Q3597684:child:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:servlet-api:jar:2.5:provided
[INFO] \- junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:test
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The provided servlet-api is there, as expected.

Are you maybe (mis)using the dependencyManagement section?