In my parent POM, I have a custom <repository> as well as a <dependencyManagement>. I wanted a concrete way of ensuring that any child POMs use the custom repository only when necessary by defining its use in <dependencyManagement>.

It appears there is a way to include a <repositories>><repositoryId> for this purpose, but only in a child POM’s <dependency> instance, and not where that <dependency> is defined in the parent POM’s <dependencyManagement>.

Is there a way to defer this information to the parent POM? On a related note, is it possible to configure a dependency in <dependencyManagement> to ensure that it ignores all custom repositories and uses the Maven Central Repository only?