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Our poms are written where maven-source-plugin runs by default so I'll have to restructure them as you suggest.
– Dean Schulze
Commented Jan 14, 2011 at 16:33
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There are many cases where plugins are desirable to have on by default and disabled by using a profile. I think this answer avoids the problem without solving it.
– Kevin
Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 2:25
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@Mowgli But the maven profile system is not well-suited to that: there is only an "activation" mechanism, not a "deactivation" mechanism. Some plugins handle this by building a deactivation mechanism of their own (e.g. skipTests for surefire plugin).
– Zac Thompson
Commented Feb 11, 2014 at 18:13
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This is Maven Disease in a nutshell. "No, you actually don't want a conditional build, you really want this upside-down thing over here that requires you to retool your entire build system! See, isn't that awesome?" Nothing against the answer, mind you, I +1'ed it.
– wberry
Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 20:28
@wberry eh, maybe. As I said above, the maven profile system is fine for conditional builds ... by conditionally enabling stuff. If you want to conditionally enable and disable stuff, I suspect your build system is going to require increased maintenance effort over time. These days, most objections to maven sound to me like, "I want to create my own build system!" But thanks for the +1 :)
– Zac Thompson
Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 21:22

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