<version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>How to handle downloading of releases from this repository.</description>
          <association>
            <type>RepositoryPolicy</type>
          </association>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>snapshots</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>How to handle downloading of snapshots from this repository.</description>

        return type;
    }

    /**
     * Selects the type of path where to place the given dependency.
     * This method returns one of the values specified in the given collection.
     * This method does not handle the patch-module paths, because the patches
     * depend on which modules have been previously added on the module-paths.
     *
     * <p>If the dependency can be a constituent of both the class-path and the module-path,

                .setBaseDirectory(new File(""))
                .setLocalRepository(repo);

        DefaultRepositorySystemSession repositorySession =
                new DefaultRepositorySystemSession(h -> false); // no close handle
        repositorySession.setLocalRepositoryManager(new SimpleLocalRepositoryManagerFactory()
                .newInstance(repositorySession, new LocalRepository(repo.getUrl())));
        MavenSession session =

        return type;
    }

    /**
     * Selects the type of path where to place the given dependency.
     * This method returns one of the values specified in the given collection.
     * This method does not handle the patch-module paths, because the patches
     * depend on which modules have been previously added on the module-paths.
     *
     * <p>If the dependency can be a constituent of both the class-path and the module-path,

import org.apache.maven.api.settings.RepositoryPolicy;
import org.apache.maven.api.settings.Settings;
import org.apache.maven.settings.v4.SettingsMerger;

/**
 * Several convenience methods to handle settings
 *
 */
public final class SettingsUtilsV4 {

    private SettingsUtilsV4() {
        // don't allow construction.
    }

    /**
     * @param dominant
     * @param recessive
     */

                return session;
            }
            newSession = new DefaultRepositorySystemSession(session);
        } else {
            newSession = new DefaultRepositorySystemSession(h -> false); // no close handle used
        }

        final LocalRepositoryManager llrm =
                system.newLocalRepositoryManager(newSession, new LocalRepository(repository.getBasedir()));
        newSession.setLocalRepositoryManager(llrm);

 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */
package org.apache.maven.settings;

import org.apache.maven.internal.impl.SettingsUtilsV4;

/**
 * Several convenience methods to handle settings
 *
 */
public final class SettingsUtils {

    private SettingsUtils() {
        // don't allow construction.
    }

    /**
     * @param dominant
     * @param recessive

                            of the local repository. This is especially troublesome during snapshot resolution so we try
                            to handle that gracefully.
                             */
                            if (versioning != null
                                    && repository instanceof LocalRepository