Maven exclude dependency of transitive dependency

Question

I have this dependency tree: A->B->C->D. A is the main project. I would like to know if it’s possible to exclude only D from A without needing to add explicitly C to A? Thanks

Answer 1

Please refer following maven documentation which contains an example and covers your use case:

https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html

Following is example snapshot for quick reference: