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[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>>> The Nexus repo is added to the top-level pom.xml for each
>>> component, so it works without additional effort.
>> 
>> please don't do that. thats a very bad mvn practice.
>> 
>> IMO provide  a settings.xml users can use via -s settings.xml or copy
>> to their ~/.m2/settings.xml instead.
> 
> For what it's worth, I think it's pretty convenient when things just compile out of the box without any extra configuration steps:  git clone; mvn install.

I completely agree on that.  

> As for it being bad practice, I thought that was one of the benefits of using Maven: not having to scrounge around for JARs, etc. to get the project to build.
> 
problem is that repositories listed in pom.xml's are inherited by all projects using them which means they can affect their builds nondeterministcally. It's a flaw of maven.

Since the only usecase for this is to get our current parent snapshots and every other jboss project already require changes to settings.xml i'm not too worried - especially if we can just provide a settings.xml to do it.

/max