Setting property to artifact pathname in maven local repo

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

I've got a pile of test data in a .tar.gz. I don't want to unpack it;
my code is perfectly happy to open it as-is and read it.

So, I see that I can list it as a dependency with a silly scope (like
the use of 'scope=tomcat' in the tomcat-maven-program) and thus force
it to download without ending up in classpath, and then I can
construct a pathname starting with the macro for the local repository.

Two questions: 1) In maven3, is there an extension mechanism I can use
to create a scope to avoid the warnings? If so, I can also apply this
to the tomcat plugin.

2) Am I missing some existing feature to neaten this up? If not, I'm
prone to make a plugin which is configured with GAVCT spec and which
sets a property to the local repo pathname, just to make it look
prettier.

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