We can exclude transitive dependencies easily from specific configurations. To exclude them from all configurations we can use Groovy's spread-dot operator and invoke the exclude() method on each configuration. We can only define the group, module or both as arguments for the exclude() method.
The following part of a build file shows how we can exclude a dependency from all configurations:
...
configurations {
all*.exclude group: 'xml-apis', module: 'xmlParserAPIs'
}
// Equivalent to:
configurations {
all.collect { configuration ->
configuration.exclude group: 'xml-apis', module: 'xmlParserAPIs'
}
}
...
Written with Gradle 1.2
