> I'd like to set up a plugin declaration to use the maven-assembly-plugin to > put together a kind of standalone uber-distribution from the root.
In my opinion it's much better to put this in a separate module. > But I > don't want this plugin--any aspect of it, at all--to be inherited by the > children. That is, when I run mvn assembly:single from the root, I want it > to run only once, and not to run for the child projects. Perhaps this is > impossible. Perhaps this is possible only with mvn -N assembly:single from > the root. > When executing assembly:single you will not be executing the build lifecycle (and thus building all modules) but just execute that plugin goal. Shouldn't be any problem then, but understand that it's probably not the Maven way as the assembly artifact being built will not be deployed to the repo. /Anders
