Making the kotlin plugin not add an implementation dependency

According to the docs, the kotlin plugin automatically adds it as a implementation dependency.

Now, the problem is that have a dependency with kotlin on it, and I want to use that dependency’s kotlin stdlib.

How would I do that? Currently I have the stdlib as a dependency as follows:

compileOnly(kotlin("stdlib-jdk8")) 

But it doesn’t really do anything since the plugin automatically adds it as an implementation. Adding:

kotlin.stdlib.default.dependency=false 

To gradle.properties, as suggested by the docs, did not work.

Thanks!

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