title: Gradle Transitive dependency exclusion is not working as expected. (How do I get rid of com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0 ?)
body: <p>here is a snippet of my build.gradle:</p>
  
  <pre><code>compile 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'
  compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-oauth2:v2-rev77-1.19.0'
  compile 'com.google.apis:google-api-services-plus:v1-rev155-1.19.0'
  compile 'com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1'
  compile 'com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which imports multiple version of guava as you can see with dependencyInsight:</p>
  
  <pre><code>com.google.guava:guava:15.0 (conflict resolution)
  
  com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1 -&gt; 15.0
  +--- com.googlecode.objectify:objectify:4.1.3
  |    \--- default
  \--- net.eusashead.spring:spring-cache-gae:1.0.0.RELEASE
       \--- default
  
  com.google.guava:guava:[15.0,15.99] -&gt; 15.0
  +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1
  |    +--- default
  |    +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8
  |    |    \--- default
  |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10
  |         \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
  +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
  \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10 (*)
  
  com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0
  \--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0
       +--- default
       +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-oauth2:v2-rev77-1.19.0
       |    \--- default
       +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-plus:v1-rev155-1.19.0
       |    \--- default
       +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1
       |    +--- default
       |    +--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8
       |    |    \--- default
       |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-pipeline:0.2.10
       |         \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
       +--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-appengine:1.17.0-rc
       |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1 (*)
       +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-storage:v1-rev1-1.18.0-rc
       |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-gcs-client:0.4.1 (*)
       +--- com.google.apis:google-api-services-bigquery:v2-rev154-1.19.0
       |    \--- com.google.appengine.tools:appengine-mapreduce:0.8 (*)
       \--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-servlet:1.17.0-rc
            \--- com.google.api-client:google-api-client-appengine:1.17.0-rc (*)
  
  (*) - dependencies omitted (listed previously)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried removing the dependency to : by doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>compile ('com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'){
          exclude group: 'com.google.guava', module: 'guava-jdk5'
      }
  compile ('com.google.api-client:google-api-client:1.19.0'){
          exclude group: 'com.google.guava', 
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the dependencyInsight remains the same. 
  I also tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>compile ('com.google.guava:guava:15.0'){force = true}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but again dependency insight remains the same. 
  How do I get rid of com.google.guava:guava-jdk5:13.0 ?</p>
  
  <p>Details:
  I've tried gradle 1.2 and 2.1 on a windows 8.1 box</p>
  
  <p>The reason for me to try this is to get rid of this exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.base.Stopwatch.createStarted()Lcom/google/common/base/Stopwatch;
  </code></pre>