Okay, here’s a thought. Under the

scoped(‘provided’, ‘..’)

paradigm, we can support fine-grained developer control over the classpath, since normal dependencies can be included in scoped_dependencies. E.g.:

java_library(name=‘…’,
  scoped_dependencies=[
    scoped(‘’, ‘:a’),
    scoped(‘provided’, ‘:b’),
    scoped(‘’, ‘:c’),
  ],
)