Excluding transitive dependencies in the new software model

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Previously I could do something like this:

dependencies {
  compile('jaxen:jaxen:1.1.6') {
    exclude module: 'xml-apis'
  }
}

Is there any way to do the same in the new software model? The documentation on ModuleDependencySpecBuilder suggests not.

2

Currently, no. The goal however is for dependency management with the software model to reach feature parity with that of the current model.