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Annotations with retention policy are ignored if they cannot be loaded at runtime (at least according to [Stack-Overvflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3567413/why-doesnt-a-missing-annotation-cause-a-classnotfoundexception-at-runtime)). Make the dependency optional to not enforce the presence of error_prone_annotations in a java runtime even if those annotations are not used at all.
This is especially useful for OSGi-runtimes where you cannot exclude error_prone_annotations because the corresponding package is specified as mandatory requirement in the MANIFEST.MF. Marking the Maven dependency as optional will also result in the error-prone package requirement being marked as optional.
At the moment error_prone_annotations does not come with a OSGi compliant Manifest, which makes it harder to include it in OSGi applications like Eclipse.
I already created a PR at error-prone to include the required OSGi headers (see google/error-prone#3903), but not requiring the annotations at all would make it even simpler to use guice within OSGi.
Alternatively the dependency could be marked as optional in the OSGi metadata.
(cherry-picked into the 6.0 release)
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