lein not using nrepl 0.2.7 even when latter is installed

[flexibeast]

lein version reports

Leiningen 2.5.1 on Java 1.7.0_79 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM

My ~/.lein/profiles.clj looks like:

{:user {:dependencies ^:replace [[org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.7"]]
        :plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.9.0-SNAPSHOT"]
                  [lein-pprint "1.1.1"]]}}

and indeed, ~/.m2/repository/org/clojure/tools.nrepl/ contains 0.2.7/tools.nrepl-0.2.7.jar and 0.2.7/tools.nrepl-0.2.7.jar.sha1. However, running lein repl from ~/ still produces:

nREPL server started on port 57962 on host 127.0.0.1 - nrepl://127.0.0.1:57962
REPL-y 0.3.5, nREPL 0.2.6
Clojure 1.6.0

i've come across this issue whilst trying to upgrade nREPL for CIDER 0.9.0snapshot. In this SO thread about trying to upgrade to nrepl-0.2.7, one user says that the dependency is only enabled by lein if one is running lein repl from within a Clojure project. Is this the intended behaviour? Or might there be something wrong with the rest of my setup, such that the :dependencies vector in ~/.lein/profiles.clj is effectively ignored?

[tonyarkles]

I'm experiencing the same problem. From my debugging so far, it looks like lein itself depends on nrepl 0.2.6 and I haven't figured out a good way to override that yet. Still experimenting.

[tonyarkles]

@flexibeast to keep things a bit more isolated, I added a profiles.clj alongside my project.clj with:

{:dev {:dependencies [[org.clojure/tools.nrepl "0.2.10"]]}} in it to solve it. I agree that this seems pretty broken though.

[cch1]

We're seeing the same problem. Any suggestions on moving forward short of @tonyarkles' approach (which seems a bit hacky -and I write that with much respect)?

[abbioro]

I think this is part of the larger problem where none of the dependencies or plugins in ~/.lein/profiles.clj are merged unless you run lein repl from a project (i.e., a directory with project.clj).

See #1901