I see only one case where it could be useful, it is when we use staging 
repositories and have to update our released binaries.
It is a shame to have to manually remove binaries previously downloaded (and it 
is error prone).
I agree that never updating released binaries is a maven fundamental and we'll 
never change that.
But we'll have to improve tooling around staging to easily allow to cleanup the 
local repository (or a part of it) for QA teams and others involved in staging 
process.
Cheers,

Arnaud


On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

> Maven won't do that, and we would never make that possible. If you require 
> this you have something seriously wrong with your project infrastructure. 
> Seriously bad project infrastructure smell.
> 
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Shan Syed wrote:
> 
>> is there a way to force a project to refresh certain dependencies every
>> build? i.e. replicate SNAPSHOT behaviour with "released" artifacts
>> 
>> S
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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> Jason van Zyl
> Founder,  Apache Maven
> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
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