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Given these constraints, we cannot always follow best practices.  This ADR proposes the way we should handle the use of Provider APIs in the gradle/gradle codebase.

## Decision

### Types of properties that should not use lazy types

The guidelines below do not apply to all properties. There are cases where the lazy types should not be used:

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