diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
index ea94130..0155457 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/site/apt/examples/using-annotations.apt.vm
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Using Plugin Tools Java5 Annotations
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <!-- annotations are not needed for plugin execution so you can remove this dependency
+           for execution with using provided scope -->
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <!-- generated help mojo has a dependency to plexus-utils -->
     <dependency>