Is it possible to remove the dependency on the ant plugin?

In our jenkins instances we enforce best practices to ensure the build can also be executed from the cmd line, without jenkins, and the ant plugin breaks that (since it allows developers to specify which version of ant to use in a way that is jenkins specific, and thus needs to be duplicated for the cmd line).

Of course, feel free to close as "won't fix" if this is hard to do, but I thought I'd ask just in case the dependency is superfial and can be easily removed (or made optional?!?!)

Thanks for considering this.