Why are plugin deps always copied to $MAVEN_HOME/plugins?

[__matthewHawthorne <ma...@apache.org>]

If a dependency has <type>plugin</type>, it seems that it is always 
copied to $MAVEN_HOME/plugins -- even if the plugin is already there.

Why is this?

This caused me some problems when running on a machine in which I didn't 
have write permissions to $MAVEN_HOME/plugins.  I sudo'd and installed 
the plugin manually, but then still received an IOException because I 
couldn't write to the plugin's jar file.

Are there any workarounds for this?  If not, I'd consider this a bug -- 
do others agree?

Thanks!


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