Is there anyway to exclude artifacts inherited from a parent POM?

Question

Artifacts from dependencies can be excluded by declaring an element inside a But in this case it\'s needed to

Answer 1

When you call a package but do not want some of its dependencies you can do a thing like this (in this case I did not want the old log4j to be added because I needed to use the newer one):

  package
  package-pk
  ${package-pk.version}

  
    
      org.apache.logging.log4j
      log4j-core
    
    
      org.apache.logging.log4j
      log4j-api
    
  




  org.apache.logging.log4j
  log4j-core
  2.5


  org.apache.logging.log4j
  log4j-api
  2.5

This works for me... but I am pretty new to java/maven so it is maybe not optimum.