The $KARAF_HOME/system directory is the top of an area laid out like a maven repository, containing (in karaf 4.1.4) 64 jar files.
The repository is the first repository of the org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.defaultRepositories configuration setting. How many of these jar files are needed for karaf to boot and start pulling dependencies down from external maven repository? None? All? Some? (if "some" are there a way to find out which ones are essential?) Thanks! - Steinar (trying to figure out the proper way to do a debian package of karaf https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881297 )
