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Looks like it works but some tasks from `some-module` are being executed and they shouldn't

```:kotlin-test-testng:jsIrPackageJson SKIPPED
:kotlin-test-testng:jsIrTestPackageJson SKIPPED
:kotlin-test-testng:jsLegacyPackageJson SKIPPED
:kotlin-test-testng:jsLegacyTestPackageJson SKIPPED```

`-x ...` removes the task and also its dependencies that are not otherwise added from the task graph, so I would guess something else is depending on those tasks?

Yeah it is weird, I will check with other task if they are still there, maybe kgp executes them always 

you can easily check the successors of said tasks in the Gradle Enterprise timeline view of a Build Scan

Can you see the actual dependency there, or just the temporal ordering?

If I do `./gradlew publishToMavenLocal -x some-module:publish`, as `publish`  would run `publishToMavenLocal`, it is not executed on `some-module` , right?

You exclude `publish`, not `publishToMavenLocal`

if `publish` would be the only task that brings `publishToMavenLocal`, then excluding `publish` would make it not bring `publishToMavenLocal`.
But if anything else brings it to the task graph, like your explicit request to execute it or another task dependency, then it is still there.