greclipse is downloading run time dependencies to P2 repo of 138MB #2936
Description
We upgraded to gradle spotless plugin 8 from spotless 5 and recently noticed our pipelines slowed down. Then noticed there are some dependencies being downloaded at run time for spotless check. And these are related to greclipse.
94M ~/.m2/repository/dev/equo/p2-data/bundle-pool/download.eclipse.org--EJM2QXrlNDLw7z5SNWvx4w--clipseupdates-4.35-R-4.35-202502280140-/
33M ~/.m2/repository/dev/equo/p2-data/bundle-pool/https-groovy.jfrog.io-artifactory-plugin--ldtmrg6m1JSts76B3o3M0Q---groovy-eclipse-integration-5.7.0-e4.35-/
11M ~/.m2/repository/dev/equo/p2-data/nested-jars
344K ~/.m2/repository/dev/equo/p2-data/metadata
44K ~/.m2/repository/dev/equo/p2-data/queries
We can use internal repos and cache to speed it up. But it makes no sense for me to download 138 MB worth of deps just for formatting groovy. Is there any alternative to greclipse? We use groovy mainly for build.gradle files.
Reacted by Aaron Fleckenstein and Takumi Ishikawa
Activity
a1flecke commentedon May 20, 2026
we are suffering from this too. It costs us an extra 60s per run
jochenberger commentedon Oct 7, 2026
I'm making some small improvements in #3123
romanuks commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Slightly offtopic, but would it be possible to configure a custom path to download from?