Replying to myself for the benefit of others -- it seems to me like
theres a built in repository in maven called maven2 that is set to
look in the central repo. If you do a mvn help:effective-pom you
don't see it, but if you do a mvn -X then you see access of the repo
with id maven2. I created
I'm having local network problems reaching maven central repo (not
pingable, traceroute fails). Whilst these are being fixed I set up a
proxy in my settings.xml
proxies
proxy
activetrue/active
protocolhttp/protocol
