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I'm trying to transform a `.aar` into another `.aar` (with additional attributes) but feels like the new attribute is ignored

I'm guessing because if the incoming artifact doesn't say anything about the new attribute it's considered a match? Does that make any sense?

A missing attribute is indeed always considered compatible with a requested one.
What we do in the Gradle build is make sure to set the attribute based on the extension.
See <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/65e75c38bb905aaf052b083995fcfc4948e789c4/build-logic/basics/src/main/kotlin/gradlebuild.minify.gradle.kts#L54-L56>

Thanks ! This is what I <https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-kotlin/blob/6543fc9be842e7dbe3934cd96daf13816f36273c/benchmark/microbenchmark/build.gradle.kts#L20|ended up doing>. Feels a bit weird that `"jar"` artifact type was automatically created by the java plugin but `"aar"` was not created by the Android plugin. I guess that's an issue for AGP. Thanks for following up!