Company-wide checkstyle.xml ?

Is there a good practice to achieve this?

I have a company-parent POM which has config to deal with site generation
and distributionMangement. Everything has this as it's parent.

I also have a build-tools JAR that supplies checkstyle.xml. The problem is
company-parent depends-on build-tools within the site configuration, yet
build-tools requires company-parent to inherit distributionManagement...
Yuck.

I now note there is an in-line configuration for checkstyle possible. Is
this the way forward for our case?

Thanks,

James