diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml b/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
index 789e6b9fff..d2d37e2d14 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
+++ b/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
     </typedef>
   </target>
 
+  <target name="test-no-deps" depends="initTaskDefs">
+     <artifact:dependencies filesetId="runtime.fileset">
+     </artifact:dependencies> 
+     <copy todir="target/test-no-deps" verbose="true">
+       <fileset refid="runtime.fileset" />
+     </copy>
+  </target>
+
   <target name="test-bad-dep" depends="initTaskDefs">
     <artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath" filesetId="dependency.fileset">
       <dependency groupId="foo" artifactId="foo" version="1.0-alpha-2"/>
diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
index bdf1701fd1..c8ced69dca 100755
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
+++ b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.maven.model.Repository;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProjectBuilder;
 import org.apache.maven.project.artifact.MavenMetadataSource;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileList;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
@@ -102,6 +103,11 @@ public class DependenciesTask
             pom = createDummyPom();
         }
 
+        if ( dependencies.isEmpty() )
+        {
+            log( "There were no dependencies specified", Project.MSG_WARN );
+        }
+
         Set artifacts;
         try
         {
@@ -165,17 +171,24 @@ public class DependenciesTask
         FileSet fileSet = new FileSet();
         fileSet.setDir( fileList.getDir( getProject() ) );
 
-        for ( Iterator i = result.getArtifacts().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
+        if ( result.getArtifacts().isEmpty() )
         {
-            Artifact artifact = (Artifact) i.next();
-            String filename = localRepo.pathOf( artifact );
-
-            FileList.FileName file = new FileList.FileName();
-            file.setName( filename );
-
-            fileList.addConfiguredFile( file );
-
-            fileSet.createInclude().setName( filename );
+            fileSet.createExclude().setName( "**/**" );
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            for ( Iterator i = result.getArtifacts().iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
+            {
+                Artifact artifact = (Artifact) i.next();
+                String filename = localRepo.pathOf( artifact );
+    
+                FileList.FileName file = new FileList.FileName();
+                file.setName( filename );
+    
+                fileList.addConfiguredFile( file );
+    
+                fileSet.createInclude().setName( filename );
+            }
         }
 
         if ( pathId != null )
diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
index 16a693b5c5..bc27eb68e2 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
+++ b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/components.xml
@@ -192,11 +192,6 @@
           <role>org.apache.maven.artifact.transform.ArtifactTransformation</role>
           <field-name>artifactTransformations</field-name>
         </requirement>
-        <requirement>
-          <role>org.apache.maven.artifact.transform.ArtifactTransformation</role>
-          <role-hint>snapshot</role-hint>
-          <field-name>snapshotTransformation</field-name>
-        </requirement>
       </requirements>
     </component>