Proper Dependency Management - HowTo?

11) don't mix inheritance and aggregation. that means a parent pom NEVER
ever
has modules, if you think about the concept for a minute - or longer -
there
will be a moment of enlightenment
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structure of the generated archetype.
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So, I'm curious as to why you would say not to do this.
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Yeah, me too! First, I had a parent pom, and a "all-projects-pom" which was
just and only a multimodule pom. But then
you had even one more pom, and we decided to put the multimodule stuff right
into the parent pom.
using the "-N" flag allows to simply work (package, install, deploy,
site) with the parent pom, while without you may easily
work(package, install, deploy, site) on all projects at once.

Thanks,

Peter