[maven] Disable a Maven plugin defined in a parent POM

I am using a parent POM that defines a plugin that I do not want to be run in a child POM. How can I disable the plugin in the child pom completely?

Constraint: I cannot change the parent POM itself.

I know this thread is really old but the solution from @Ivan Bondarenko helped me in my situation.

I had the following in my pom.xml.

<build>
    ...
    <plugins>
         <plugin>
                <groupId>com.consol.citrus</groupId>
                <artifactId>citrus-remote-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${citrus.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>generate-citrus-war</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>test-war</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

What I wanted, was to disable the execution of generate-citrus-war for a specific profile and this was the solution:

<profile>
    <id>it</id>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.consol.citrus</groupId>
                <artifactId>citrus-remote-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${citrus.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <!-- disable generating the war for this profile -->
                    <execution>
                        <id>generate-citrus-war</id>
                        <phase/>
                    </execution>

                    <!-- do something else -->
                    <execution>
                        ...
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</profile>

See if the plugin has a 'skip' configuration parameter. Nearly all do. if it does, just add it to a declaration in the child:

<plugin>
   <groupId>group</groupId>
   <artifactId>artifact</artifactId>
   <configuration>
     <skip>true</skip>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

If not, then use:

<plugin>    
<groupId>group</groupId>   
 <artifactId>artifact</artifactId>    
<executions>
     <execution>
       <id>TheNameOfTheRelevantExecution</id>
       <phase>none</phase>
     </execution>    
</executions>  
</plugin>

The thread is old, but maybe someone is still interested. The shortest form I found is further improvement on the example from ?lex and bmargulies. The execution tag will look like:

<execution>
    <id>TheNameOfTheRelevantExecution</id>
    <phase/>
</execution>

2 points I want to highlight:

1. phase is set to nothing, which looks less hacky than 'none', though still a hack.
2. id must be the same as execution you want to override. If you don't specify id for execution, Maven will do it implicitly (in a way not expected intuitively by you).

After posting found it is already in stackoverflow: In a Maven multi-module project, how can I disable a plugin in one child?