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Jesse Glick commented on MNG-1867:
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System scope is the only known way to do certain tasks. Most notably:
http://maven.apache.org/general.html#tools-jar-dependency
This case could be solved "properly" only if everyone agreed that the (Open)JDK
6 or 7 version of {{tools.jar}} sufficed, and could be legally published to a
well-known repository. There may be other rarer cases with {{dt.jar}} etc.
> deprecate system scope, analyse other use cases
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> Key: MNG-1867
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1867
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Artifacts and Repositories, Design, Patterns & Best
> Practices
> Reporter: Brett Porter
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 3.1
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> possibly can avoid all use cases for system scope through proper use of
> alternate resolvers. Gather use cases (see MNG-1471) to ensure.
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