How to configure this action to ignore plugin dependencies?

[andreas-borglin]

How to configure this action to ignore plugin dependencies?

[andreas-borglin]

Btw in the example above the project is setup with Gradle 7.4.2 and it's using the v3 tag for this action.

[bigdaz]

There's not (currently) any way to ignore all plugin dependencies for your build, and the dependency-submission action is not able to differentiate between "development" and "runtime" dependencies.

But you can choose which projects and/or configurations to include/exclude when generating the dependency graph. See the documentation here.

[andreas-borglin]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes sorry I forgot to mention that I have tried with DEPENDENCY_GRAPH_EXCLUDE_PROJECTS: ':buildSrc' (also directly via the Gradle plugin locally) and it did not make any difference for this case.

I will keep testing with variations of the flags to see if I can get it to work somehow.

[bigdaz]

You need to realize that it's where the dependencies are resolved that matters, not where they are declared. So if a plugin is applied to all projects, then it won't be possible to exclude it via project.

If you can generate a build scan then that will give you a good feel for which resolved configurations contain the undesirable dependency. If not, try running the dependencies and buildEnvironment tasks.