one CVS repository.. for projects from multiple SCM repositories it's harder
 to maintain the same relative links on all developer computers.
 not sure the unified source directory structure addresses this issue.

 Properties

 maven.user.config.dir (system,default=${user.home}/.m2)
 maven.home            (system,user,default=${user.home}/m2)

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