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coder.chenzhi
coder.chenzhi

Reputation: 171

Why mvn dependency:tree sometimes download the binary files?

In my opinion, we can get the dependency tree by analyzing the pom.xml files recursively without the binary files of these dependencies. However, I find that maven sometimes will download some binary files when I run mvn dependency:tree. Why are these files downloaded?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 603

Answers (1)

UserASR
UserASR

Reputation: 2205

Might be because maven dependency plugin has its own dependencies:

> [INFO]
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:maven-plugin:2.0-alpha-5-SNAPSHOT
> [INFO] +-
> org.apache.maven.reporting:maven-reporting-impl:jar:2.0.4:compile
> [INFO] |  \- commons-validator:commons-validator:jar:1.2.0:compile
> [INFO] |     \- commons-digester:commons-digester:jar:1.6:compile
> [INFO] |        \-
> (commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:2.1:compile - omitted for
> conflict with 2.0)

More detail is in maven-dependency-plugin

Upvotes: 2

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