Just as an example, When I run my build, I have to point to both the milestone and releases maven from Spring repositories, it downloads every M# and R# ever released pom.xml files when I am not using any of them.

The full log has way more. Like 3.1.0.M1 and 3.1.0.M2. Lucky for me it goes from 3.1.x forward and not any 3.0.x stuff cause that would be way to many. Especially since I go and delete from my .m2 repo directories all these extraneous files only to have them come back.

Code:
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/libs-release/org/springframework/spring-core/3.1.0.RC1/spring-core-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-core/3.1.0.RC1/spring-core-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloaded: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-core/3.1.0.RC1/spring-core-3.1.0.RC1.pom (0 B at 0.0 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://maven.springframework.org/release/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.1.0.RC1/spring-asm-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloading: http://m2.neo4j.org/releases/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.1.0.RC1/spring-asm-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/libs-release/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.1.0.RC1/spring-asm-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.1.0.RC1/spring-asm-3.1.0.RC1.pom
Downloaded: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-asm/3.1.0.RC1/spring-asm-3.1.0.RC1.pom (0 B at 0.0 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://maven.springframework.org/release/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.1.0.RC2/spring-beans-3.1.0.RC2.pom
Downloading: http://m2.neo4j.org/releases/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.1.0.RC2/spring-beans-3.1.0.RC2.pom
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/libs-release/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.1.0.RC2/spring-beans-3.1.0.RC2.pom
Downloading: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.1.0.RC2/spring-beans-3.1.0.RC2.pom
Downloaded: http://repo.springsource.org/milestone/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.1.0.RC2/spring-beans-3.1.0.RC2.pom (0 B at 0.0 KB/sec)
Thanks

Mark