One more question - if I configure my parent pom to never be
embedded
I would still have to care for adding BRs myself, right? So no
additional problems would arise from being able to use
mvn-rpmbuild/local that rely on normal poms.
Yes, of course.
Effective POMs are installed just for the purpose of solving otherwise
difficult dependency problems without adding -devel packages like other
compiled languages have (devel packages were already suggested and
rejected before IIRC).
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Mikolaj