How do I publish a Gradle project to maven repository with 'optional' and 'provided' scope?

I see how gradle can deploy to a maven repository automatically generating the POM required to do it. How can this be so开发者_开发百科 for dependencies that I would set to true and/or provided.

GRADLE-784 has a provided scope workaround.

The Gradle plugin "propdeps-plugin" solves this.

The WAR-Plugin (see http://gradle.org/war_plugin) now offers providedRuntime and providedComplile. But the provided scope does not exist in general.