Archived: eclipse org.eclipse.m2e.core/nexus huge file size occupied

 

Source URL: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53444616

This is the Maven Repository index, used for suggesting Dependencies and Plugins when you're adding some to your project. And yes, it's quite normal to be this big, Maven Central contains a lot of content.

You can delete the file, but it will be downloaded again unless you disable the indexing:

You can also micromanage the indexes for your various repositories if you go to Window -> Show View -> Other... -> Maven -> Maven Repositories, and right-click any of your repos:

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answered Nov 23 '18 at 10:09

Petr Janeček

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