code: @Override
      protected boolean evaluateDependencies(final Dependency dependency, final Dependency nextDependency, final Set<Dependency> dependenciesToRemove) {
          if (hashesMatch(dependency, nextDependency)) {
              if (!containedInWar(dependency.getFilePath())
                      && !containedInWar(nextDependency.getFilePath())) {
                  if (firstPathIsShortest(dependency.getFilePath(), nextDependency.getFilePath())) {
                      mergeDependencies(dependency, nextDependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                  } else {
                      mergeDependencies(nextDependency, dependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                      return true; //since we merged into the next dependency - skip forward to the next in mainIterator
                  }
              }
          } else if (isShadedJar(dependency, nextDependency)) {
              if (dependency.getFileName().toLowerCase().endsWith("pom.xml")) {
                  mergeDependencies(nextDependency, dependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                  nextDependency.removeRelatedDependencies(dependency);
                  return true;
              } else {
                  mergeDependencies(dependency, nextDependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                  dependency.removeRelatedDependencies(nextDependency);
              }
          } else if (cpeIdentifiersMatch(dependency, nextDependency)
                  && hasSameBasePath(dependency, nextDependency)
                  && vulnerabilitiesMatch(dependency, nextDependency)
                  && fileNameMatch(dependency, nextDependency)) {
              if (isCore(dependency, nextDependency)) {
                  mergeDependencies(dependency, nextDependency, dependenciesToRemove);
              } else {
                  mergeDependencies(nextDependency, dependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                  return true; //since we merged into the next dependency - skip forward to the next in mainIterator
              }
          } else if (ecoSystemIs(AbstractNpmAnalyzer.NPM_DEPENDENCY_ECOSYSTEM, dependency, nextDependency)
                  && namesAreEqual(dependency, nextDependency)
                  && npmVersionsMatch(dependency.getVersion(), nextDependency.getVersion())) {
  
              if (!dependency.isVirtual()) {
                  DependencyMergingAnalyzer.mergeDependencies(dependency, nextDependency, dependenciesToRemove);
              } else {
                  DependencyMergingAnalyzer.mergeDependencies(nextDependency, dependency, dependenciesToRemove);
                  return true;
              }
          }
          return false;
      }
docs: Evaluates the dependencies
  
  @param dependency a dependency to compare
  @param nextDependency a dependency to compare
  @param dependenciesToRemove a set of dependencies that will be removed
  @return true if a dependency is removed; otherwise false