elharo opened a new issue, #1485:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-site/issues/1485

   ### Bug description
   
   Are system dependencies really not recommended or deprecated? In particular 
is it reasonable to expect people to install their own Maven repository in 
order to fork and replace an artifact instead of just using a system 
dependency? 
   
   Hypothesis: the real purpose of a system dependency is to more easily 
install a different jar in a local project with the same coordinates as an 
existing jar. This is freedom of in free software: "The freedom to study how 
the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 
1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this."
   
   ### Maven site URL where bug exists
   
   
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html


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