Current Behavior

Given the below reproducer

Hamcrest will appear/disappear depending on the order of the two top-level dependencies.

Expected Behavior

Hamcrest is always present, as there is a path to hamcrest that does not exclude it.

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Self-contained Reproducer Project

reproducer.zip

Gradle version

8.14

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