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One potential workaround is to disable those tasks in the build file for the

application

.

./gradlew run

will still work even if these tasks are disabled.

tasks {
    distTar {
        enabled = false
    }
    distZip {
        enabled = false
    }
}

there are other lurking problems where project names collide; one of them is in artifact naming, both when publishing artifacts and when using inter-project dependencies. For that one often need to do this in a convention plugin to have fully qualified group references.

group = "somePrefix" + project.path.split(":").dropLast(1).joinToString(".")

Actually, disabling

distZip

and

distTar

is a bit of a strange action, as those are the main purpose of the

application

plugin. The

run

task is more a test-/debug-utility. And as Chris said, you have bigger problems with same-name projects / artifacts. It is better you name the projects explicitly unique. You don't need to change the directory structure for that, you can configure the project path in the settings script.