// This is often an artifact like a POM that is taken from disk and we already have hold of the
        // file reference. But this may be a Maven Plugin that we need to resolve from a remote repository
        // as well as its dependencies.

        if (request.isResolveRoot() /* && rootArtifact.getFile() == null */) {
            try {
                resolve(rootArtifact, request.getRemoteRepositories(), session);