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[13:51:44 CDT(-0500)] <athena> but i believe the -D property is -Dmaven.offline=true
[13:54:19 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> yeah i dug in the build.xml and saw that, but it didn't work immediately... i'm concerned that maybe I don't completely understand the order in which these events happen... and what would happen if there's already garbage in the .m2/repository dir