Yes, that saves time for the download but not for unzipping of the runtime.

why are skipRequirements controlling download of normal maven dependencies ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-15332 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-15332 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Enhancement Components: build Affects Versions: 4.2.0.Beta1 Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen Assignee: Mickael Istria Priority: Minor Labels: f2f2014 Fix For: LATER I stumbled on [~dgolovin]'s patch for livreload at https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-livereload/pull/54/files This is not the first time i've seen skip having to be enabled for plain normal mvn dependencies. skipRequirements are supposed to only cover big downloads (like EAP, jboss etc.) - things done via non-maven download mechanism. Why is this applied to mvn dependency downloads ? The culprit for needing this line is at: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/blob/master/parent/pom.xml... and a bugzilla (*not* jira?!) is referenced as the reason for this back in 2012: https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/commit/2e18baaf88e0cd73b3b... I understand why the explicit google download plugin (why is there two versions used btw?) but why is skipTests controlling normal mvn dependency download ? Which requirements are using this for download ?