I don't think there is a way to configure it as a logger but mvn -q hides the [INFO] lines and mvn -X shows the debug messages.
Update in 2015: newer versions of maven have added a config file where this is finally possible although as a global per install configuration, check on your $mavenInstallationDir/conf/logging/simplelogger.properties if the file doesn't exist then your maven version is probably too old, I believe it was added on the 3.1 release
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