title: Maven dependency on zip artifact
body: <p>I have a project that needs to depend on a ZIP file which is produced by another project. That 'other project' is not under my control. The ZIP file is required for correctly building my project. It is not required for execution of my project. I need Maven to download the ZIP file for me.</p>
  
  <p>I currently create a dependency on the ZIP artifact like this:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.foo&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;zeus&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.1&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;type&gt;zip&lt;/type&gt;
      &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My problem is the scope. If I use anything but <code>test</code> it brings with it a lot of transitive dependencies from 'other project' which screws up my own project. Using <code>test</code> as the scope actually does the job but it shows in my IDE as a Test-dependency. So I feel I'm doing something wrong. This is not a test-dependency!</p>
  
  <p>I've looked through the available Maven scopes ('compile', 'provided', etc) and I just cannot seem to find one that matches my use case. Am I doing something wrong?</p>