Maven - too many dependencies

[paul4christ79]

I am using maven 2, spring 2.0 m5, acegi 1, and eclipse.

When I add acegi security as a dependency, i get a ton of new libraries added to my eclipse project -- including spring 2.0 m2. i don't need 2 springs!

How do I exclude all the dependencies but acegi itself?

[ge0ffrey]

<dependency>
...
<excludes>
<exclude>
<groupId>...</>
<artifactId>...</>