yeah, I also tend to use exclusions for that. I think the cleanest way to solve this is from the library author’s side. For example, I think they should be more aware of what dependencies should be included in development and which ones should be shipped. Something that always bugs me is that all libraries include clojure as a depedency. It is as if all java libraries would include java as a depedency.

so for most of my depdencies I have to add exclusions for clojure, or for loggers, etc.