Dependency management when using poi-ooxml

Sayak Mukhopadhyay <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.user
Message-ID <pony-11c8fcbb92cbdd8d6aa7c85d969313919a08e5b1-f6129a218acc09d148a227ef5f081696600f2818@user.poi.apache.org>
Hello
I am trimming an existing project and I saw that it depends on both poi and poi-ooxml. But, poi-ooxml has a dependency on poi itself. I was also looking online and found this answer on SO https://stackoverflow.com/a/60350527/5863472 which seems to suggest that depending on poi is explicitly needed for backwards compatibility. Is that true? Can't I just depend on poi-ooxml and use poi only features too since it would be in the classpath anyway?
Regards
Sayak
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