Right but those are zypper command arguments. The zypper command itself
(not the zypper module) has no way of ignoring package dependencies. At
least no way that I know of. The zypper module could have used
/usr/bin/zypper to download the specified RPMs and then used the rpm
command to
The 'zypper' module has 'extra_args' and 'extra_args_precommand' params
(since 2.4 and 2.6, respectively), which allow you to pass whatever
arbitrary arguments that you want to zypper when installing a package.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/zypper_module.html#parameters
Andrew
If the answer is 'No. zypper and other package management modules do not
give the caller complete control over package installation' then I'd ask
why. Would the community be opposed to extending something like the zypper
module to include a *disable_dependencies* argument?
On Wednesday,
