title: Maven on the empty project downloads tons of dependencies
body: <p>I use Maven on daily basis in my work for more then 5 years. But I never tried to test the minimum dependencies project.</p>
  
  <p>So I created a new directory on my disk and put inside a <code>pom.xml</code> file. It is the most simple pom file you can create. It contains only this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;info.jikra&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;whatever&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.1&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And that's it. There is nothing more. No other directories, not a single Java file, nothing.</p>
  
  <p>Then I cleared my local repository and ran <code>mvn clean install</code> in the folder with my pom file.</p>
  
  <p>Maven downloaded tons of dependencies I don't need. My project is empty, there is only one pom file. Yet, there are more then 7,6M of files in my local repository, now.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not any kind of Maven master, so I wonder why all those dependencies are necessary. Does anyone know?</p>