Consider the following setup:
configurations {
compileTransitive {
transitive = true
}
compileFlat {
transitive = false
}
compile {
extendsFrom compileTransitive
extendsFrom compileFlat
}
}
dependencies {
compileTransitive 'top:trans:dep' // this depends on a.b.c
compileFlat 'top.flat.dep' // this depends on x.y.z
}
Here I’ve created two configurations, one whose dependencies should be transitive, and one whose dependencies should not. I’ve then made the compile config extend both of those configurations.
My expectation was that I’d end up with the following set of libraries in the compile configuration:
top:trans:dep
a.b.c // because top:trans:dep depends on it, and compileTransitive allows transitive dependencies
top.flat.dep
Specifically, I did not expect to see x.y.z in my compile configuration, but that is not the case. Here’s what I actually see in my compile config:
top:trans:dep
a.b.c
top.flat.dep
x.y.z
It seems as though extendsFrom does not honor the transitivity of the configuration being extended. This is surprising. In order to achieve what I want here, I have to update each dependency in compileFlat to specify transitive: false, which seems to defeat the purpose of setting it on the configuration.
What am I missing? Is there some magic step I don’t know that would allow me to mark an entire configuration as intransitive and have that be honored when the config is extended?