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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented on MNGSITE-521:
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I'm still not sure myself what a dependency type truly is. Starting with a
rough idea for improvement and iteration:
The type of a dependency is a string name (any syntactic restrictions on that?)
that indicates the purpose for which an artifact will be loaded and determines
how and when it will participate in the build process. For example, ...
> Define dependency type
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> Key: MNGSITE-521
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNGSITE-521
> Project: Maven Project Web Site
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Priority: Critical
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> At no point I can find do we ever explain what a "dependency type" is though
> it's referenced in various places in the docs. It's not a Java type. It's not
> a file type. Beyond that I can't explain it.
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