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Or, is it better to write Gradle / Maven plugins that generate a packed version of each JAR as an additional artifact. If so, how would you configure Maven to prefer such an artifact? Does that fit with the current model? Can an artifact have multiple classifiers attached? What I want is to tell Aether "download the pack200 version of an artifact if it exists, otherwise download the JAR" but I'm not sure that totally fits with the Maven model