Maven inherit dependencies of dependency module - maven

Question

Currently I have a project where module B depends on module A.
Module A would be:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.A</groupId>
<artifactId>P</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>A</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>A</name>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>${sourceDirectory}/A/src</sourceDirectory>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.osgi</groupId>
<artifactId>org.osgi.core</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Module B would be:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.A</groupId>
<artifactId>P</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>B</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>B</name>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>${sourceDirectory}/B/src</sourceDirectory>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.A</groupId>
<artifactId>C</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.A</groupId>
<artifactId>A</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
In order to compile B I need the classes in a-dep. If I manually add a-dep as a dependency everything compiles fine. But the project needs me to depend on A to get to a-dep instead of explicitly declare a-dep.
Is there a way to get the classes from a-dep by depending on module A?

Answer 1

was able to solve it by removing the true tag as it prevents B to be able to see the dependency.