I use rules like prefer-caret-version-dependencies. However, sometimes a dependency has a problem that requires me to specify a version range that cannot be represented with a caret version.

Looking at the documentation, I cannot see a way currently to specify exceptions to the rule. Either all dependencies are checked and if any of them don't use the caret syntax, I get an error. Or I have to turn off the rule or make it a warning. But a warning is not really the level of forcefulness I want. It is too easy to miss a warning.