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afaik there is no way to exclude dependencies or constraints in the publication API. What you can do is define constraints in a separate configuration that you only use for the

*Classpath

but not the

*Elements

E.g.:

val constraint = configurations.create("constraint")
configurations.compileClasspath.get().extendsFrom(constraint)
configurations.runtimeClasspath.get().extendsFrom(constraint)
// or others/more if you have Android or KMP

And then define your alls constraints on the

constraint

configuration.

yeah, I've read an issue with this solution. Actually we applied constraint too broad, which adds unnecessary

<dependencyManagement>

block in publication where constraint dependency is not used. So I redo our script to apply constraint only when project has configuration with this constrained dependency.