component selection expiration warning about gradle HOT 3 OPEN

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Note that Gradle could only know if an all rule did something at all for the whole graph if reject was called at least once. For a withModule rule, it could know if the rule was invoked and if it did something (call reject). All the rest is opaque to Gradle.

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IIUC, you're saying you have rules that no longer apply because you end up always selecting a newer version and any rejects/prefers/etc do not impact the resolution result?

Would it be equally useful to be able to see a report that showed rules that affected the result vs rules that did not?

This is interesting, but I don't think we'll be working on this anytime soon.

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IIUC, you're saying you have rules that no longer apply because you end up always selecting a newer version and any rejects/prefers/etc do not impact the resolution result?

potentially, probably

Would it be equally useful to be able to see a report that showed rules that affected the result vs rules that did not?

yes. Realistically wanting a way to be notified that things can be cleaned up which is why I suggested warnings, but warnings plus a report would be good, or if the report can be made to fail the build so it can be caught by CI. although I don't like that so much because CI failures should represent failures not notifications IMHO.

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