Eclipse m2eclipse plugin can't build with maven prerequisites 2.1.0

working with Eclipse and trying to build the CMS I ran into a problem where
the m2eclipse plugin did not want to build the CMS project, because it was
complaining about the wrong maven version. While looking at the
prerequisites in the top most pom.xml it states:

<prerequisites>
<maven>2.1.0</maven>
</prerequisites>

Looking at the maven prerequisites documentation it clearly states that this
is the minimal supported version. However even if you set the m2eclipse
plugin maven version to your local one (2.2.1 in my case) it still does not
seem to be able to build the project.

For those of you that run into this issue, you can fix this by changing the
parent pom.xml

<prerequisites>
<maven>[2.1.0,)</maven>
</prerequisites>

This means that it requires at lease 2.1.0, but it will also build with a
higher version of maven2. This might be a nice thing to change? What do you
guys think?

From the commandline however there is no problem with building the project.