Description of problem: Maven contains some dependencies pulling in additional packages that are not strictly needed (at least several *-parent packages), Basically: yum install maven should not install any maven plugins.
I believe that this bug is fixed in maven-3.0.4-30, which is available in Fedora Rawhide. I am closing the bug now, thank you for reporting it. A summary of changes is included below. * Wed Feb 6 2013 Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk> - 3.0.4-30 - Remove unneeded R: maven-local