# What is the asterisk in dependencyReport?

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-is-the-asterisk-in-dependencyreport/6067>\
**Category:** Old Forum Archive\
**Created:** [November 27, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-is-the-asterisk-in-dependencyreport/6067 "2012-11-27T13:20:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Philip\_Crotwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Philip\_Crotwell](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Philip_Crotwell)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/what-is-the-asterisk-in-dependencyreport/6067/3 "2012-11-27T20:42:00Z")

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Nope, not there. Just did a gradle clean dR, same behavior Philip

```
crotwell$ tail -10 build/reports/project/dependencies.txt

|

 \--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3 (*) +--- jetty:jetty:4.2.27 |

 \--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3 (*) \--- junit:junit:4.8.1 (*)

 versionCompile - Classpath for compiling the version sources. No dependencies

 versionRuntime - Classpath for running the compiled version classes. No dependencies
```

```
crotwell$ gradle --version

 ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 1.3 ------------------------------------------------------------

 Gradle build time: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:37:38 AM UTC Groovy: 1.8.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012 Ivy: 2.2.0 JVM: 1.6.0_37 (Apple Inc. 20.12-b01-434) OS: Mac OS X 10.7.5 x86_64
```

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