Dear maven developers, first of all thanks for all your energy. Maven has become a great tool and now even complex multi-module-projects can build their site perfectly what was a very long way.
One thing that is really causing pain to me - and many others I talked to is MNG-5181. The concept of maven was that if an artifact is available in the local repository it is directly available to dependency resolution without Internet access. Now I have a OSS artifact that was downloaded from central but via artifactory, nexus or archiva by some tweak of the settings and I have to get it once again if I use central without a proxy what fails if I am offline. IMHO this is more of a bug than a feature. If we are talking about security one could follow KISS and just use different local repositories through his settings if he cares. It would at least be very helpful if there was a way to disable this feature by a property (that could be provided in settings.xml). I have seen many users that wrote scripts that remove all _maven.repositories files or use sed to replace the repository name inside. This is really strange... Thanks & regards Jörg
