Case in point: the jacoco dependencies are packages as eclipse-plugin. See https://repository.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/central-proxy/content/org/jacoco/org.jacoco.core/0.5.3.201107060350/org.jacoco.core-0.5.3.201107060350.pom
<artifactId>org.jacoco.core</artifactId> <packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging> <name>JaCoCo :: Core</name> <description>JaCoCo Core</description> The JAR is available from mavenCentral but gradle/wharf refuses to download it. I can only see the pom file inside ~/.gradle/caches/artifacts-4/org.jacoco/org.jacoco.core/* There must be a better way to fix this than downloading all jars and setting up a flatDir repository :-(