diff --git a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
index 22f1640de8..edb6759976 100644
--- a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
+++ b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ public class MBoot
         ClassLoader bootstrapClassLoader = createClassloaderFromDependencies( reader.getDependencies(), null,
                                                                               localRepository );
 
-        reader = new ModelReader( downloader, true );
+        reader = new ModelReader( downloader, false );
         reader.parse( new File( basedir, "maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/pom.xml" ) );
         List surefireDependencies = new ArrayList();