On 10/02/2012 10:19 AM, Sievers, Jan wrote: I'm totally fine with this "limitation". In our use-case, we build and deploy Target platforms in another reactor than the ones consuming it. Not sure how it is related, but I've made some experiences on the surefire-mojo to get it resolve dependencies by itself when dependencies are not available (such as in a pom packaging type). This allows to invoke Mojo from a non-Tycho packaging: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=388909 https://github.com/mickaelistria/tycho/commit/dda678326c60c98c2d2cd311d6f... Cheers, -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>