Failed to remove gradle transitive dependency in Android project

Question

I try to remove transitive dependencies from my Android project, and for some reason excludedoes not work when I try to remove a dependency from my specific dependency.

For example, I want to remove support-annotationsfrom my project

if i use

configurations {
    all*.exclude group: 'com.android.support', module:'support-annotations'
}

Dependency gets excluded from the dependency tree. I can see the dependency tree with. / gradlew app: dependencies

But if I use

 compile('com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0')
            {
                exclude group: 'com.android.support', module:'support-annotations'
            }

Then I still see the dependency in the dependency tree.

So my question is why it does not work when I try to remove a dependency on a specific dependency?

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