Your case was why I originally wrote these goals to take the artifact
info as configuration instead of from the dependency list. The only
reason you would want to use a dependency and the
copy/unpack-dependencies would be if:
You need to resolve dependencies produced by another module in the same reactor
You're using ranges.

If neither are true, you can use copy/unpack and it should be fine.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using the unpack goal in the depenency plugin. Somehow I got the
> idea that it was better to declare the thing I am unpacking as a
> dependency (even if I don't want it in the classpath) instead of just
> giving the other unpack goal a full GAV.
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, lukewpatterson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>
>>> process it in the dependency plugin.
>>>
>>
>> what do you mean by "process"? if you mean "copy" or "unpack", m-d-p [1] has
>> separate goals for working with artifacts listed in the configuration
>> section and working with project <dependency>s
>>
>> e.g. see "copy" [2] vs. "copy-dependencies" [3]
>>
>> [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/
>> [2] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-mojo.html
>> [3]
>> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-dependencies-mojo.html
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