title: How to turn off transitive dependencies for maven projects?
body: <p>I have come across the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-2315" rel="noreferrer">JIRA post</a> that gives a solution as including exclusion tag in each dependency tag of POM.</p>
  
  <p>But I have large number of projects and each project has huge number of dependency tags. It's not feasible to include this <code>&lt;exclusion&gt;</code> in each of the dependency tags. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong>: Is there a way to globally switch off the importing of transitive dependencies in maven?</p>