[m2] ids of repositories are inconsistently used in poms

[Barrie Treloar]

In plexus-1.0.8-SNAPSHOT.pom

 <repositories>
   <repository>
     <id>apache-snapshots</id>
     <name>Snapshot repository</name>
     <url>http://people.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
   </repository>
   <repository>
     <id>codehaus-snapshots</id>
     <name>Codehaus Snapshot Development Repository</name>
     <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org</url>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
   </repository>
 </repositories>

And in maven-assembly-plugin (trunk) it is defined as
 <repositories>
   <repository>
     <id>codehaus.org</id>
     <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org</url>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
   </repository>
 </repositories>


If I am behind a firewall (or I want to use a mirror) then I will need
to make sure I edit my settings.xml to add a mirror entry.  Since the
id value is arbitrary I need to constantly edit my settings.xml file
to add extra entries.

So my question is, what value does the "id" actually give?  URLs are a
unique name space and it would make more sense to use those and
deprecate the id field.
Thoughts?

Bae

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