Sometimes you want to exclude all or a group of dependencies of an artifact, because your build doesn't require the transitive dependencies or your build includes better alternatives. It would be nice to have a wildcard type of exclusion on groupId and artifactId. One example is when depending on an artifact with a classifier, the build does not always require the same transitive dependencies that the main artifact uses.
Exclude all transitive dependencies
Exclude transitive dependencies with the groupId "org.company"