Is there a way to exclude a Maven dependency globally?

Question

I’m trying to find a “generic” way of excluding a transitive dependency from being included without having to exclude it from all the dependencies that depend on it. For ex

Answer 1

Does this help? http://jlorenzen.blogspot.com/2009/06/maven-global-excludes.html

"Assuming I want to exclude avalon-framework from my WAR, I would add the following to my projects POM with a scope of provided. This works across all transitive dependencies and allows you to specify it once.

  
      avalon-framework
      avalon-framework
      4.1.3
      provided
  

This even works when specifying it in the parent POM, which would prevent projects from having to declare this in all child POMs."