And do much better factoring :-) You might find this blog post interesting: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/11/maven-3x-paving-the-desire-lines-part-one-2/
and in particular, this funny bit (on youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaT-jFpwj_M&feature=player_embedded The release plugin had a big fix for "flat" projects described in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/mrelease-261, that just came out as part of the 2.0 release (announced 2/11/2010) -Marshall
