How to exclude maven dependencies?

I have a question about exclusion of maven dependencies. Consider the following

       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>
            <version>${spring-security.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>

I am trying to achieve a transition from Spring 3.0.6 to 3.1.0 . Spring security 3.1.0 had a dependency on spring-security-web version 3.0.6 which in turn had a dependency on spring-web 3.0.6. I need to bring it all to 3.1.0. So I exclude spring-security-web from Spring security, have a separate dependency for spring-security-web 3.1.0 which in turn excludes the spring-web 3.0.6 version and I provide a separate spring-web 3.1.0 version. This work but I feel there would be a much easier approach. I