Backported b1f9123311e0579d6b4c01f375611e0c0086a5d6

[thelmstedt]

Backported "React to dependency management plugin rather than always
applying it" from the 2.x branch. We don't have tests in this branch so
they haven't been pulled across.

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[wilkinsona]

Thanks, but removing the logic that applies the dependency management plugin automatically would be a breaking change which, therefore, cannot be made in 1.5.x.

[thelmstedt]

Ouch - can this be documented in big red blinking letters somewhere? I was extremely surprised that a development-time tool influenced my dependency versions at all - let alone in a way which breaks native gradle dependency overrides.

What if it was configurable, instead of the default?

[wilkinsona]

It's already documented along with a section describing how to override the versions.