Be aware that you're talking of two different strategies. Using a pom artifact as a dependency and using import scope to import depMgmt declared in another pom. Two different things!
/Anders On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 22:18, Laird Nelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > > > Tim talks about this in this blog post: > > > > > http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/10/maven-tips-and-tricks-grouping-dependencies/ > > > > Thank you, yes, this is the first I've seen this documented. So that seems > like you don't need <scope>import</scope> in order to depend on an artifact > with <type>pom</type>. This is very useful to see. I wish it were > documented more prominently. > > Best, > Laird >