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I don't know about the first question, but I would guess so. So if you delete the file from cache and resolve again, it might skip the pom downloading as it has the information in `metadata-*` already. If you also kick `metadata-*` it also downloads the POM freshly on resolve.

To request the actual POM, you can use an artifact resolution query, but you will not get its ancestor POMs through that. You have to request them separately through additional artifact resolution queries.