title: Overriding profile dependencies from parent pom
body: <p>I am using maven 3.1 and my project inherits from a third party parent pom. The parent pom has a profile which must not be activated as it introduces conflicting dependencies.</p>
  
  <p>In order to prevent the parent's profile from kicking in, I tried defining an "empty" profile with the same id in the child pom - hoping it will override the one from the parent, but that did not work for me.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible and if so how can you override dependencies introduced by a profile in the parent pom ?</p>