b) is absolutely useful. I use it to compile Clojure code against the IntelliJ classes, but not have them included when I run.

What would be the deps solution to that - two separate classpaths using aliases? I guess I’d need an alias for the IntelliJ classes and would have to use that when compiling but not running?

aliases is how I've solved it up until now.

Yes

You seem to be describing using provided scope aliases in your own project (which is useful, but handled by aliases). The question I read above though sounded like how to include transitive provided-scope deps, which does not seem like a thing you should do

Yeah, I need b) for a similar tooling related concern

I want to load code from Artifact A which has a “provided” dependency B. Now I’d like to make sure all these dependencies are loaded without manually listing those “provided” deps. Hope that makes sense

Well, the whole point of provided scope is: you provide them

So, not going to make something to do this

Is resolve-deps supposed to download the relevant dependencies if I call it myself?

dorab@dorab-OptiPlex-9020:~$ clj -Srepro -A:deps
Clojure 1.9.0
user=> (require '[clojure.tools.deps.alpha :as tda])
nil
user=> (tda/resolve-deps '{:deps {org.clojure/core.cache {:mvn/version "0.6.5"}}} {})
ArtifactNotFoundException Could not find artifact org.clojure:core.cache:jar:0.6.5  org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve (DefaultArtifactResolver.java:412)
user=> 
dorab@dorab-OptiPlex-9020:~$ clj -Srepro -A:deps -Sdeps '{:deps {org.clojure/core.cache {:mvn/version "0.6.5"}}}'
Downloading: org/clojure/core.cache/0.6.5/core.cache-0.6.5.pom from 
Downloading: org/clojure/data.priority-map/0.0.7/data.priority-map-0.0.7.pom from 
Downloading: org/clojure/data.priority-map/0.0.7/data.priority-map-0.0.7.jar from 
Downloading: org/clojure/core.cache/0.6.5/core.cache-0.6.5.jar from 
Clojure 1.9.0
user=> (require '[clojure.tools.deps.alpha :as tda])
nil
user=> (tda/resolve-deps '{:deps {org.clojure/core.cache {:mvn/version "0.6.5"}}} {})
ArtifactNotFoundException Could not find artifact org.clojure:clojure:jar:1.4.0  org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve (DefaultArtifactResolver.java:412)
user=> 

If it is supposed to work, what am I doing wrong above?

BTW, this is in a directory (my home dir) that does not have a deps.edn in it.

You need to provide the :mvn/repos to look in (these are in the install deps.edn with clj)

Ah. I thought those would automatically be included. So, I should create the full deps.edn map myself and then pass that to resolve-deps. Thanks.