I'm wondering what the difference would be between the following two ways of handling copying of a certain type of maven dependency. The dependency I'm talking about is something like, for instance, a self-extracting installer that I want to bundle with my custom assembly. I've deployed this installer as a maven artifact. Initially, I didn't think of it as a normal maven dependency, since it's not a compile dependency, so I set the build up to use the maven-dependency-plugin:copy mojo. This works great. However, I then started wondering whether I should just declare the dependency in my dependencies and then use the maven-dependency-plugin:copy-dependencies mojo.
Can anyone provide some insight as to whether either way is better or worse?
