Comments - MariaDb JDBC Connector 3.1.0 librairie size and dependencies
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3.1.0 now have waffle as dependencies ( and all sub dependencies). As you supposed, this is only for GSSAPI (Kerberos, NTML, ...)
This dependency can be excluded without issue. (even GSSAPI will work at some simple level)