Question about patching metadata of published components

[boris-petrov]

Discussions are not enabled for this repo so I open an issue for that, sorry.

I'm wondering about patching metadata of published components. Especially the removeDependency - how is that different from using Gradle's exclude mechanism:

implementation('org.jobrunr:jobrunr:7.2.0') {
	exclude group: 'org.jobrunr', module: 'jobrunr-bom'
}

Why would one prefer one over the other?

A second question would be why and when would I want to use the other methods in that link - addApiDependency, addRuntimeOnlyDependency, etc.

Perhaps adding that kind of information to the README would help people like me understand what are the use-cases.

Thank you!