Document excluding non-JAR transitive dependencies#1986
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docs: document excluding non-JAR transitive dependencies as fix for "Cannot expand ZIP" error
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Issue #1716 surfaces a
Cannot expand ZIPerror when Shadow encounters transitive POM-only metapackage dependencies (e.g.org.graalvm.js:js-community). The existing docs only covered embedding such dependencies via a custom configuration +from(). The simpler fix — just excluding them — was undocumented.Changes
docs/configuration/dependencies/README.md: Adds a new subsection "Excluding Non-JAR Transitive Dependencies" under the existing "Embedding Non-JAR Dependencies" section, showing how to use thedependencies { exclude(...) }block to drop POM-only transitive deps that cause the error.tasks.shadowJar { dependencies { exclude( // Exclude the transitive dependency on js-community, which can't be unzipped by the task. dependency("org.graalvm.js:js-community:.*"), ) } }Closes #1716.