Exclude dependency not excluding jar

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On gradle 2.4, the following code was expected to exclude the commons-logging jar:

configurations {
    // use the one on tomee/lib instead!!!
    all*.exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
}

Running with -d, I see lots of statements showing exclusion, such as:

commons-logging:commons-logging is excluded from commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1(runtime).

However towards the end I see the module gets included anyway:

Attaching commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1(compile) to its parents
...
Found artifact 'commons-logging.jar (commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1)' in resolver cache: ...

Is this a Gradle bug?

Thanks

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You should not be using the spread operator here. In this case you should be using the all(Closure action) method to configure all project configurations.