it's interesting pulling in dependencies using gradle metadata - sometimes I only need a common dependency, and sometimes that doesn't work

It depends on how they've been published. A bunch of the Jetbrains libs actually have

xxx-native

publications that you can use just from common to hit all platforms. Unintuitive naming though.

oh, you refer to native from common?

I think they left the bare artifact as jvm in some cases for back-compatibility, but I don't know the whole story there

let me give that a try. i did notice that jvm/android refers to the bare artifact name