diff --git a/client/pom.xml b/client/pom.xml
index 419e8008..d7d3e4cd 100644
--- a/client/pom.xml
+++ b/client/pom.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
             <groupId>org.jboss.fuse.mvnd</groupId>
             <artifactId>mvnd-common</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.graalvm.nativeimage</groupId>
             <artifactId>svm</artifactId>
diff --git a/common/pom.xml b/common/pom.xml
index f753d92c..00d4819c 100644
--- a/common/pom.xml
+++ b/common/pom.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/daemon/src/main/provisio/maven-distro.xml b/daemon/src/main/provisio/maven-distro.xml
index ace3e064..f8555d23 100644
--- a/daemon/src/main/provisio/maven-distro.xml
+++ b/daemon/src/main/provisio/maven-distro.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
             <exclusion id="*:plexus-sec-dispatcher"/>
             <exclusion id="*:plexus-utils"/>
         </artifact>
+        <artifact id="org.jboss.fuse.mvnd:mvnd-client:${project.version}">
+            <exclusion id="*:slf4j-simple"/>
+        </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
     <fileSet to="mvnd-${project.version}-${os.detected.name}-${os.detected.arch}">
diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 3ba85302..4aeba407 100644
--- a/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@
             <groupId>org.jboss.fuse.mvnd</groupId>
             <artifactId>mvnd-client</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ab29a8ee..603a8e7d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
                 <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
                 <version>${logback.version}</version>
             </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                 <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>