> we can't reasonably fork the entire dependency just to remove that one sub-dependency from our project's dependency If you use Maven, just exclude that trans

> we can't reasonably fork the entire dependency just to remove that one sub-dependency from our project's dependency If you use Maven, just exclude that transitive dependency from the explicit dependency. But yeah, dumb warnings are dumb. <dependency> <groupId>com.example</groupId> <artifactId>my-dependency</artifactId> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency>