'How to solve this 'eclipse' task which collides with the existing one?

I'm trying to 'decorate' the gradle eclipse task with a re-definition of the 'eclipse' task which will add some information such as logs, description, and possibly other things, when running a gradle eclipse command :

task eclipse(type: GradleBuild) {
    description "Creates eclipse configuration files"
    group "IDE"

    startParameter = project.gradle.startParameter.newInstance()
    startParameter.setTaskNames(["eclipse"])
    buildFile = project.file("my-projects/build.gradle")
    doFirst {
        logger.lifecycle("Creating eclipse configuration files")
    }   
}

Now it complains because eclipse is an existing task :

Cannot add task 'eclipse' as a task with that name already exists.

I believe this was allowed in very old versions of gradle, and now it's not working.

javaeclipsegradle


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