Making symbolic link named ".m2" to Gradle JAR repo

After many years of using Maven, I am used to that my JARs are in ~/.m2/ directory, so I created myself a link as follows:

$ ln -s ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1 ~/.m2 

$ ls -alt ~/.m2/

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  65 ukilucas  staff  2210 Apr 28 23:18 .

drwxr-xr-x   3 ukilucas  staff   102 Apr 28 23:18 junit

drwxr-xr-x   4 ukilucas  staff   136 Apr 28 23:18 org.hamcrest

drwxr-xr-x   3 ukilucas  staff   102 Apr 28 14:15 com.android.tools.external.lombok

drwxr-xr-x   3 ukilucas  staff   102 Apr 28 14:15 org.abego.treelayout

drwxr-xr-x   3 ukilucas  staff   102 Apr 28 14:15 com.intellij

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