I think I died a little reading this. Maven itself already has subtle strange issues and problems working with dependency ranges, having a gentoo specific version of maven that does even more different things with artifact resolution would be a nightmare to deal with. Esp. if you have developers working on different distributions or OS's.
I remember going thru the same pains with Redhat/JPackage when they tried the same with. -- "Great artists are extremely selfish and arrogant things" — Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Kasun Gajasinghe <kasu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Further, there are other constraints involved. Mainly the packages should > be > able to use the existing jars available in the system (under /usr/share), > and we've are not strict about having a specific version as a dep as long > the existing system jar is api-compatible. > > So, this is the step we take to have a custom maven build tailored to > Gentoo > system satisfying all the constraints. >
