How to skip javadoc dependency download with sbt

Question

1) Javadoc artifacts tend to take too much space and time to download. For example, scala-library-2.10.2-sources.jar is 1 Mb, but scala-library-2.10.2-javadoc.jar is 34 Mb.

2) Javadoc is mostly not needed at all. As modern IDEs can fetch all info from sources.

So I wanted to find a way to alter sbt settings to completely disable javadoc download among third-party library dependencies.

Answer 1

https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea/issues/225#issuecomment-19150022 kindly gives the answer:

The javadoc is typically much more bulky and less useful than the sources. I have at least turned off downloading javadocs by putting this setting in ~/.sbt/build.sbt:

transitiveClassifiers in Global := Seq(Artifact.SourceClassifier)

See also What is a classifier in SBT.

Note that ~/.sbt/build.sbt on Linux corresponds to %USERPROFILE%\.sbt\build.sbt on Windows.