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It probably depends which version of the `com.gradle.plugin-publish` plugin you're using, as things changed in 1.0.0, and how you configured the POM/publication for publication to Central.

(ok, in this case, how Jetbrains configured them for Dokka)

Yep, it's using `0.20.0` : <https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/blob/e1e114b2c8a025e24b605a0753d7ae0301196315/runners/gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts#L6>

But given that the `plugin-publish` is closed source, it's quite hard to investigate

IIUC, prior to version 1.0.0 you couldn't customize the POM published to the plugin portal.

you can do it, but it requires Shenanigans

Looks like I needed to set the excludes on dependencies themselves, not configurations: <https://github.com/Kotlin/dokka/pull/2570>