Ability to use enforcer.skip without POM.

[TomVanWemmel]

Affected version

3.6.2

Bug description

I found myself in a situation where I wanted to create a new code repository.
I have a script that creates a default structure with two files in the .mvn folder
One is extensions.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<extensions xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/EXTENSIONS/1.1.0"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/EXTENSIONS/1.1.0
                            https://maven.apache.org/xsd/core-extensions-1.1.0.xsd">
    <extension>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.extensions</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-enforcer-extension</artifactId>
        <version>3.6.2</version>
    </extension>
</extensions>

The other is enforcer-extension.xml

<extension>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <configuration>
        <rules>
          <requireMavenVersion>
            <version>(3.6.3,)</version>
          </requireMavenVersion>
          <requireJavaVersion>
            <version>17</version>
          </requireJavaVersion>
        </rules>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</extension>

Next in my routine is to generate a project from an archetype

mvn archetype:generate -Denforcer.skip

And the enforcer extension throws an exception

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------< org.apache.maven:standalone-pom >-------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> archetype:3.4.1:generate (default-cli) > generate-sources @ standalone-pom >>>
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  0.164 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-10-10T10:14:24+02:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:3.6.2:enforce (default-extension): Goal requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/tmp/extension). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException

For me this is a minor inconvenience, but I was wondering if this behavior is correct.

I suppose enforcer.skip would be a POM property, overwritten by the JVM config.