**[Guillaume Nodet](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=gnt)** opened **[MNG-8559](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8559?redirect=false)** and commented --- **Issue Links:** - [MNG-6135](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6135) Maven plugins and core extensions are not dependencies, they should be resolved the same way as projects. (_**"contains"**_) - [MNG-8451](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8451) Core should inject "managed" dependency management during plugin resolution (_**"contains"**_) - [MNG-2893](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-2893) Update the DefaultPluginManager to not use a project depMan for controlling its transitive dependencies (_**"contains"**_)