I think that you will have to keep that sbt line there because akka-actor comes with the distribution but is a separate jar. So you will have to pull that depen

I think that you will have to keep that sbt line there because akka-actor comes with the distribution but is a separate jar. So you will have to pull that dependency yourself in sbt. "For Akka users this change does not have visible effects (you will continue to depend on the same artifacts)" http://letitcrash.com/post/37716546018/2-1-spotlight-akka-actors-enter-scala-distribution http://letitcrash.com/post/37716546018/2-1-spotlight-akka-ac...