Maven and the "provided" dependency scope

[Laurent Pireyn]

Hi,

I noticed the dependencies on third-party libraries have the (default) "compile" scope. For example, in simpleclient_jetty, the dependency on jetty-server doesn't specify any scope.

Wouldn't it be better to declare those dependencies in the "provided" scope? After all, it is the responsibility of the dependent POM authors to explicitly specify the dependency-ies on the third-party libraries and not rely on them being pulled in transitively by the Prometheus client library.

Thanks for you feedback!