[MNG-3525] settings.xml: profiles do not allow defining mirrors

**[Paul Gribben](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=paulg)** opened **[MNG-3525](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-3525?redirect=false)** and commented

I use Maven either in my office or outside my office.

At work we have a repository manager thus we have mirror properties in the settings.xml for the whole teams global settings. We also have a defined a number of repositories in our work profile so we can mirror these to different repo's managed by Archiva. Now when I work from home I have to comment out the mirror definitions and activate a home profile which does not define any repos so Maven just goes out to the WWW as normal. So the pain is having to comment out and un-comment the mirror settings every time I go from work to home and visa-versa.

Can we not have the option to add mirrors inside profiles?

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**Affects:** 2.0.9

**Issue Links:**
- [MNG-4420](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4420) It should be possible to define your mirrors section inside a profile
(_**"is duplicated by"**_)
- [MNG-5698](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5698) Declare proxies and mirrors in profiles
(_**"is duplicated by"**_)
- [MNG-5929](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5929) Allow mirrors to be set through settings.xml profiles
(_**"is duplicated by"**_)

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