Spurious maven selenium dependencies added

[Tim Boudreau]

I've been wondering about this for more than a year, and it happened today
while working on a NetBeans module project.  It happens once every few
months - you're working on some project, and go to build it and discover
that *something* has added this to your pom.xml:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <version>2.44.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.opera</groupId>
            <artifactId>operadriver</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
            <version>1.5</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
                    <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

frequently in a project that has nothing whatsoever to do with web stuff.

Any idea what the culprit is?

-Tim

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