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&gt; while this works, it results in deprecation warnings about undeclared use of a build service, due to the service being hidden behind a provider
I don't think that it is due to the service being hidden behind a provider.
Even a direct property for the build service wouldn't help.
All tasks that use the service must declare that with `usesService`.
In the past this was optional, but now it becomes mandatory and thus you get the deprecation warning.

agreed.  I’ve switched to using a direct property (it still triggers when behind a Provider), and added the `usesServices` broadly.

hiding the build service behind a provider is questionable - it isn’t evident from looking at the code which tasks use which services.