/usr/share/java as maven repository?

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Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> What about a maven plugin that leave the jar in /usr/share/java, but
> "register" the jar.
>
> if mvn present:
>   mvn install -DgroupId=... -DversionId=... -DartifactId=...
> /usr/share/java/my.jar
>
> and we could have maven to use /var/lib/maven2 or /var/lib/m2
>
> then, when you install a lib*-java, it's present for global maven.
>
> I think it'd be possible to do that if a /etc/maven2/settings.xml tell
> where the "local repo" is
A layer of indirection makes sense, as we will likely see more 
'repository systems' in the next
year or two, with Java 7 modules, for example. It's highly unlikely that 
their developers will
be able to agree on anything, in particular what a repository should 
look like, so indirection
lets us support several of them without having to pick favorites.

cheers,
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