AFAIR, Paul said that even when downloaded, those snapshots are not used. Not sure how,
maybe they are overwritten by the build?
Jason T. Greene wrote:
To clarify, SNAPSHOTS *are* forbidden
The problem is the way maven handles modules is broken (surprise):
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4326
However, what I am not sure about, is whether the downloaded snapshots
take precedence in the classpath over the modules.
Paul, should this problem be anything more than gratuitous downloading?