title: Forcing flink to use different kafka-clients jar
body: <p>i am using Flink Connector Kafka 1.8.0. (depends on kafka-clients 2.0.1)</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.flink/flink-connector-kafka_2.12/1.8.0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.flink/flink-connector-kafka_2.12/1.8.0</a></p>
  
  <p>using gradle:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.flink/flink-connector-kafka
  compile group: 'org.apache.flink', name: 'flink-connector-kafka_2.12', version: '1.8.0'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i wonder if i can force it to use kafka-clients 2.4.0</p>
  
  <p>i wodering if flink supports it, and even so, how it can be configured through 
  gradle?</p>
  
  <p>can you assist?</p>