It says that the default configuration of your module depends on the master configuration of log4j. The master configuration points to just the library jar itself.
-----Original Message----- From: eqe99 [mailto:eq...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:37 AM To: ivy-u...@ant.apache.org Subject: RE: newbie: why does log4j pull down all sorts of files? conf="default->master" worked great. what is that trying to say exactly? pull the default conf from the log4j dependency? whats "->master" do? many thx Brown, Carlton-2 wrote: > > In your dependency on log4j, do transitive="false" or > conf="default->master". > > I never ever use transitive dependency on 3rd-party dependencies for > exactly this reason. The dependency graph is arbitrarily long, it > pulls in stuff that I know I'll never need, or the repository can't > host the binaries for licensing reasons. > > That being said, I have found these repositories are good to have in > your public chain, they have many Sun jars that m2 central doesn't: > http://download.java.net/maven/2/ > http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: eqe99 [mailto:eq...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:53 PM > To: ivy-u...@ant.apache.org > Subject: newbie: why does log4j pull down all sorts of files? > > <snip> > </snip> > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/newbie%3A-why-does-log4j-pull-down-all-sorts-of-fi les--tp21821665p21834213.html Sent from the ivy-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ----------------------------------------- ==================================================== This message contains PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL information that is intended only for use by the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient, any disclosure, dissemination, or action based on the contents of this message is prohibited. In such case please notify us and destroy and delete all copies of this transmission. Thank you. ====================================================