[[sec:adding-constraints-transitive-deps]]
== Adding constraints on transitive dependencies

Dependency constraints allow you to define the version or the version range of both dependencies declared in the build script and transitive dependencies.
It is the preferred method to express constraints that should be applied to all dependencies of a configuration.

 * of project dependencies. This optimizes module loading during runtime, as we will only load external
 * modules that are not loaded transitively by other project modules.
 *
 * We perform this filtering, since if we simply include all external dependencies, regardless of whether
 * they are already loaded transitively, there is a measurable performance impact during module-loading.

 *         Jar component:
 *         <ul>
 *             <li>{@code external} indicates that transitive dependencies are themselves component jars</li>
 *             <li>{@code embedded} indicates that transitive dependencies have been included inside the component jar, without modifying their packages</li>

     * only the self resolving dependencies of the project configuration which are no project dependencies are resolved. If transitive
     * is set to true, other project dependencies belonging to the configuration of the resolved project dependency are
     * resolved recursively.
     *

                }
            """

            file("transitive/build.gradle") << """
                plugins {
                    id 'java-library'
                    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm' version '$kotlinVersion'
                }
            """
            file("transitive/src/main/java/transitive/Powerize.java").java """
                package transitive;

                public class Powerize {

            // Develocity plugin is auto-applied but the Gradle Enterprise plugin is a transitive dependency
            gradleEnterpriseFixture
        }

        @Override
        void assertNotAutoApplied(String output) {
            // Develocity plugin is applied neither as a transitive dependency, nor via auto-application mechanism as Gradle Enterprise plugin is present

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