I believe that's what's going on, yes. Leiningen runs on top of Maven and so it's downloading the jars you need and storing them in ~/.m2/ where they will be l

I believe that's what's going on, yes. Leiningen runs on top of Maven and so it's downloading the jars you need and storing them in ~/.m2/ where they will be linked in at compile time. A "lein uberjar" will roll your whole program up into one .jar file, ready for deployment.