Let’s say I have the following gradle java projects:

Library:

dependencies {
    api("dep1")
    api("dep2")
    api("dep3")
}

Software-Api:

dependencies {
    api("library")
}

Software-Impl:

dependencies {
    implementation(project(":api")
}

The problem is that with shadowJar it includes every dependency declared with api().

I can declare Software-Impl as isTransitive = false, for this case. But that doesn’t feel right?

Am I misunderstanding something about the use of api() ?
Should I avoid re-declaring dependencies as api() ?

Thanks in advance