An already failed Bundle will make any further bundle deployments fail

the problem is that from the JSON status provided by the web console it's not easy to decide whether a bundle just takes a long time to start/stop, or if it failed and will never come up.

that's why the content package maven plugin waits and checks again an again until all bundles are started.

but if a bundle cannot start at all after some time (depending on configuration, by default ~5min) the deployment should continue. so it does not really "fail" - or what was your observation?

it's true, still the default timeout (6 mintes) is for local dev environment a bit long and inpatient people like me would think it never gets through.
tip: if a bundle does not start due to a missing dependency and you just want to install this very dependency, you can reduce the timeout using -DbundleStatusWaitLimit=10 (here 10 seconds) or you can even disable the bundle status check by -DbundleStatusURL=-
see also http://wcm.io/tooling/maven/plugins/wcmio-content-package-maven-plugin/install-mojo.html#bundleStatusURL

here again the params (now with correct formatting)
-DbundleStatusWaitLimit=10
DbundleStatusURL=