Transitive metadataSources configuration

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Hello,

I am umpgrading ~200 old projects to Gradle 6.9.1 atm. Many of the dependencies are available in custom maven repositories, but without pom files. I found the solution for this to be

maven {
        url "http://repo.mycompany.com/repo"
        metadataSources {
            mavenPom()
            artifact()
        }
    }

such that Gradle will resolve sole artifacts as well. This works absolutely fine for the repository it was declared in. Artifacts are build and published in a maven. Sadly, some of the ~200 repositories depend on each other and

metadataSources {
            mavenPom()
            artifact()
        }

is not translated into their maven POM file. Therefore, subsequent dependencies will fail to resolve those old dependencies, unless they declare the repository in the same manner. Is there a ways to allow for transitive repositories in this case?

Glad about any suggestions! Cheers,
Sin