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can I presume that you’re running `./gradle build`? Because that will trigger the ‘build’ task in all subprojects

Instead you could run the build task only in the specific subproject that you want to build, e.g.

```./gradle :my-cool-subproject:build```
Or if you want to run build _only_ in the root project:

```./gradle :build```

Also, the `distribution` plugin is registering the tar and zip tasks, but the start script generation is by the `application` plugin.

Actually the question is, why you at all apply the `application` plugin if you follow the imho horribly bad practice of building a fat jar. (see <https://fatjar.net> for some quotes)
If you build a fat jar, just do not apply the `application` plugin and you also do not have the tasks you don't like.

Other than that, you cannot "disable a plugin" other than not applying it anyway. You can disable all tasks it registered, but just be disabling the tasks directly, they do not have a technical connection to the plugin, so there is no "disable all tasks of plugin X", as that would practically be the same as just not applying the plugin, just worse.

My recommendation is to just properly use the `application` plugin and the distributable archive you get out of it and save the problems you will run into sooner or later by using fat jars which bring only problems and no actual added value.

<@U02KX5B7EVC> I'm running `./gradlew build`. I get your point of building each individual service, and that's what we want to achieve at some point but it's not currently possible. However, that would still run the mentioned tasks

<@URQ797WRW>, unfortunately, we're using the Micronaut application plugin, which uses fat jars and also depends on the Gradle application plugin :shrug:

Well, then you either need to disable those tasks by setting `enabled = false` on them, or you can exclude them using `-x taskName` when calling Gradle which would also suppress tasks that are exclusively dependencies of that task and not required by something else in the build.

Or you could check whether micronaut plugin has some configuration for this or could add it

Thank you! I'll check if there's anything possible with the Micronaut plugin