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

I created an empty jar and created this dependency:

    commons-logging
    commons-logging
    system
    ${basedir}/src/lib/empty.jar
    0

It is not perfect because from now on you have an empty jar in your compile/test path. But that is just cosmetic.