> We could remove the installation into MAVEN_HOME as part of > the plugin > processing. No big deal there.
I think that is where plugin:download is targetted to as well. If it is not installed to the central plugin dir, then that will be out of sync with the expanded plugins dir. > What about plugins from other parties, e.g. the maven-plugins > project. > They'd come from $MAVEN_REPO_LOCAL/maven-plugins/plugins > > I'd much rather the list of installed plugins be in a > different directory > to the repo. Good point - so how about just putting them in ~/.maven/plugins? - Brett