Fabric8 Maven Plugin: how to upload artifacts to fabric maven proxy leaving profile unmodified

Issue

• I'd like to deploy artifacts directly to the fabric maven proxy of Fuse 6.3 on Karaf, using Fabric8 Maven Plugin. Along with osgi bundles I also deploy a features repository in order to declaratively control the set of installed artifacts. But the artifacts uploaded with mvn fabric8:deploy are also automatically added to the profile.

• QUESTION: is there a way to make mvn fabric8:deploy command simply upload project artifacts, leaving the profile unmodified?

• Ideally I'd want to
  • upload fresh bundle/artifacts to the fabric maven proxy preventing them to be added as artifacts to any profile
  • update the profile this freshly uploaded configuration resources
  • update the features repo and features list of the profile

So far the only workaround I've found is using a fake profile (one not used by containers) for the modules uploading artifacts (point 1 above) setting the valid profile only on the maven submodule providing config (point 2-3 above).