You can already do:
- action: "{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}" name=some-pkg-name
On Sunday, June 7, 2015, Michael Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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