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A solution to an annoying bug in Jenkins

This is a bit of rare task to exclude something from a sourceset without knowing exactly what to exclude, but it is doable.

Local variables could be trickier than you think in Gradle

Gradle is much better to manage dependencies than Maven. Not only it allows you to set http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolutionStrategy.html, but it also supports full manual control.

First, if you do not want transitive dependencies at all (you will be forced …