title: Can someone explain the ivy.xml dependency's conf attribute?
body: <p>I can't find any thorough explanation of the Ivy dependency tag's <em>conf</em> attribute: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency org="hibernate" name="hibernate" rev="3.1.3" conf="runtime, standalone -&gt; runtime(*)"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>See that <em>conf</em> attribute?  I can't find any explanation (that I can understand) about the right hand side of the <code>-&gt;</code> symbol.  PLEASE keep in mind I don't know the first thing about Maven so please explain this attribute with that consideration.</p>
  
  <p>Yes, I've already looked at this: <a href="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/dependency.html" rel="noreferrer">http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/dependency.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks,<br>
  Dan</p>