title: Maven2 sharing dependencies across parent and children (without redeclaring dependencies in children)
body: <p>With maven1 I was using the <strong>extend</strong> tag to tell my children project to use their parent configuration.</p>
  
  <p>All dependencies declared in the parent were available in extending (children) projects.</p>
  
  <p>Now with maven2 I'm using the inheritance/composition feature and I have to redeclare my dependencies (minus the version number) in every child project.
  (see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231561/how-to-share-common-properties-among-several-maven-projects">how-to-share-common-properties-among-several-maven-projects</a>)</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to tell maven that I want to share some of my dependencies among all my children ? </p>