[MNG-7949] Dependency management import should support explicit inclusion
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**[Jeff Maxwell](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jeff.maxwell)** opened **[MNG-7949](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7949?redirect=false)** and commented
There are many cases where a project will publish a bom that has a mix of that project's artifacts and 3rd party ones.
While the exclusion feature is an improvement in scenarios where one wants to limit the dependencies to just those owned by the project the exclusion list can be quite large and would require updating whenever the project adds another 3rd party dependency.
Explicit inclusions would avoid both of those issues.
Example:
Suppose we wanted to exclude all non-spring dependencies from `org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies` with `exclusions` a reasonable attempt, one that would retain clarity, would take 172 lines with `includes` it would take 12.
```java
org.springframework.boot
spring-boot-dependencies
${spring-boot.version}
pom
import
ch*
co*
io.*
jakarta*
javax*
jaxen*
junit*
net*
nz*
org.apache*
org.aspectj*
org.assertj*
org.awaitility*
org.cache2k*
org.codehaus.janino*
org.crac*
org.eclipse*
org.ehcache*
org.elasticsearch.client*
org.firebirdsql.jdbc*
org.flywaydb*
org.freemarker*
org.glassfish*
org.hamcrest*
org.hibernate*
org.hsqldb*
org.infinispan*
org.influxdb*
org.jboss.logging*
org.jdom*
org.jetbrains*
org.jooq*
org.junit*
org.liquibase*
org.mariadb*
org.messaginghub*
org.mockito*
org.mongodb*
org.neo4j.driver*
org.postgresql*
org.projectlombok*
org.quartz-scheduler*
org.reactivestreams*
org.seleniumhq.selenium*
org.skyscreamer*
org.slf4j*
org.testcontainers*
org.thymeleaf*
org.webjars*
org.xerial*
org.xmlunit*
org.yaml*
redis.clients*
wsdl4j*
```
vs:
```java
org.springframework.boot
spring-boot-dependencies
${spring-boot.version}
pom
import
org.springframework*
```
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