> big dependency like Spring a big offender here are the spring boot starter meta dependencies, which are a very opinionated set of mutually compatible depende

> big dependency like Spring a big offender here are the spring boot starter meta dependencies, which are a very opinionated set of mutually compatible dependencies, but God forbid that you want to use a newer version in your own project, e.g elasticsearch 5 vs the "officially compatible" 2.4. welcome to jar hell