The clean goal should ignore missing subproject dependencies

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: core
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Description

For a multiproject style project in which the subprojects are interdependent, e.g. an ear subproject depends on an ejb and a war subproject, it is impossible to attain the clean goal at the root of the project without first installing each subproject.

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dion gillard added a comment -

Often in a multiproject environment a 'master build' project with no subproject dependencies is created.

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dion gillard added a comment - Often in a multiproject environment a 'master build' project with no subproject dependencies is created.
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thierry lach added a comment -

The resolution to this should not be specific to clean - any goal should be able to declare that it can run without a dependency check.

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thierry lach added a comment - The resolution to this should not be specific to clean - any goal should be able to declare that it can run without a dependency check.

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    Reporter:
    Jim Crossley
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