[MNG-5818] Disallow plugins from programmatically adding dependencies to projects

**[Jason van Zyl](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=jvanzyl)** opened **[MNG-5818](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5818?redirect=false)** and commented

MavenProject.setDependencyArtifacts(deps) is publicly available to plugins that can alter the classpath non-declaratively. For compatibility reasons in MNG-4363 we restored this capability for the cobertura-maven-plugin but it needs to be removed. It causes some nasty logic in the core, but it being non-delclarative and magical is the real problem.

We need to deprecate MavenProject.setDependencyArtifacts(deps), and replace the logic for constructing the artifacts in a better. Preferably passing in the artifacts in the constructor of MavenProject.

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