Is there a way in gradle to remove a dependency from a parent source set, with the goal to replace w...

# multiplatform

[Jeff Lockhart]

Is there a way in gradle to remove a dependency from a parent source set, with the goal to replace with another variant of the same library?

[hfhbd]

What about exclude?

[Jeff Lockhart]

My understanding of exclude is to be able to exclude a transitive dependency. Can it also remove a dependency not added as transitive?

[Jeff Lockhart]

I think I found a solution. If I declare the dependency as compileOnly in the parent source set, I can then add the appropriate variant in child source sets. The parent dependency is the desired dependency in one of the children, so I just re-add it as api.