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I tried injecting a ComponentMetadataRule but it didn't work

@CacheableRule
abstract class RemoveAllFiles: ComponentMetadataRule {
  override fun execute(context: ComponentMetadataContext) {
    context.details.allVariants {
      withFiles {
        removeAllFiles()
      }
    }
  }
}

dependencies {
  components {
    withModule<RemoveAllFiles>("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib")
  }
}

What about

configurations.getByName("implementation").dependencies.removeIf {  }

?

ah yes, that works, thanks!