grails.war.dependencies documentation problem

(from post to grails user group http://www.nabble.com/grails.war.dependencies-documentation-problem-td20956861.html)

the grails user guide states that "you can explicitly specify the
complete list of libraries to include in the WAR file by setting the
properties grails.war.dependencies " - this is exactly the facility i
need to create "svelte" war files containing none of the grails dist
or lib jars - however, it turns out that the grails dist jars are
included anyhow - taking a look at the War script, it's clear that
this is intentional, not a bug - so that means that the documentation
is incorrect - i'll file a jira if you concur

in order to work-around this problem, i'm using grails.war.resources
to delete the grails lib jars from the staging dir - it's all rather
hacky and it would be nice if there was a cleaner way to control what
goes into a war file

in case you are wondering why in the world i'd want to strip all the
grails lib and dist jars from my war file: i'm deploying many grails
apps to my container (like on the order of 10-20) - this is because i
am taking advantage of the application composition facility provided
by SIP servlet 1.1 containers like SailFin and each of my apps combine
both SIP (ECharts for SIP servlets) and grails elements - this may
sound like a niche requirement but i also see that the grails support
in GlassFish 3.0 includes a special script that generates a svelte war

• in other words, the Glassfish developers also realized that there
  was no easy way to strip the grails jars from the war so they decided
  to write their own script - so perhaps this is the answer: add a new
  "SkinnyWar" script to the grails distro