I am using IvyDE, and want to minimize the amount of cruft in a set of
related projects. I saw the reference to 'virtual' modules in the Ivy FAQ
("Can I write an ivy file for a module with no artifact at all ?") and that
looks to be what I need.

I have one empty Eclipse project "cli-googlecli-ivy" that I put the "master
list" in with this ivy.xml:

<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
       xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd";>
    <info organisation="com.whirlpool" module="whr-googlecli-ivy"/>
    <publications/>
    <dependencies>
   <dependency org="args4j" name="args4j" rev="2.32" />
            <!-- lots more here -->
    </dependencies>
</ivy-module>

The projects that need the dependencies just have this for ivy.xml.
<ivy-module version="2.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd";>
<info organisation="com.whirlpool" module="whr-googlecli-demo"
status="integration"/>
<dependencies>
<dependency org="com.whirlpool" name="whr-googlecli-ivy"
rev="latest.integration"/>
</dependencies>
</ivy-module>

and I make sure that the "Resolve in workspace" checkbox is set.

Eclipse is happy; all my dependencies are there, my classpath gets set,
etc, etc.

The problem is when I try to set up an ant script in Eclipse  to do a
shippable build, the ivy:resolve task looks in local, shared, and public
repos to find whr-googlecli-ivy.jar. I don't need it to do that (this is an
empty project, remember?), I just need it know about the dependencies I put
in the cli-googlecli-ivy.

How do I get ivy:resolve to work with a virtual module and not try to
download artifacts for the module itself (just it's dependencies)?

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