Hi Several months ago, I had reported that the desktop artifact brings in a dependency on material ...

# compose-desktop

[zt]

Hi

Several months ago, I had reported that the desktop artifact brings in a dependency on material 2. However it seems to still not have been fixed. Other libraries which depend on it get that material 2 dependency as well, even if not used. which is then carried down into my own projects which use only material 3

Here is the specific line where it happens:
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform-core/blob/db2825ee67d649cb9d28aa0bf166e863db66ae0e/compose/desktop/desktop/build.gradle#L50

The only thing the desktop artifact has is just deprecated stuff. Maybe it could just be deleted entirely? It would be great if this could be resolved, my current work-around has been specifying an exclusion rule in gradle
exclude(group = "org.jetbrains.compose.material", module = "material")

[Ivan Matkov]

cc @Igor Demin @Alexander Maryanovsky

[Igor Demin]

This is in our plans. The blocker here is to decide an alternative for desktop.currentOs that resolves binaries. Vote for https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/issues/497

> Other libraries which depend on it
Libraries shouldn't add a dependency on desktop, only end applications should do that.