Ah! That works wonderfully!
On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 12:03:03 PM UTC-7, Matt Martz wrote:
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> You can already do:
>
> - action: "{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}" name=some-pkg-name
>
> On Sunday, June 7, 2015, Michael Johnson <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
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>> 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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