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' } } ...
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