It has always sort of bothered me that ansible does not have a generic 'package' module that you then can tell it what 'provider' to use if you want to override the default like other tools such as puppet.
While doing some searching on the topic, I found this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/4261 That issue asks about this same question and the core of the response seems to be the last part of the last sentence: "as you have to make exemptions so many times, it really causes problems down the road." While I can somewhat understand this philosophy, it does not seem to been one that is internally consistent. Take the 'service' module for example. Services can require just as many exemptions as packages. If this philosophy is really the sticking point, why don't we have 'systemd_service', 'smf_service', 'upstart_service', etc.? There may very well be a good explanation for the apparent inconsistency, but I am not seeing it. Can anyone explain why these two things which seem very similar to me are treated very differently in ansible? Would the ansible project be open to having a unified 'package' module? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/56b70dd6-6b0c-44c5-a35f-32af8d149826%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
