On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:02:38AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > it could have made good sense, and still would, for the "ansible" > package to be what is now being colloquially referred to as > "ansible-core", but for which the published upstream git repo is still > https://github.com/ansible/ansible, and which is and will remain > accessible as a github release tarball with the old numbering. The > pypi.org published "ansible-core" is a republication of that repo with > a new name duck-taped on it. Fragmenting out the bulky and potentially > dynamic set of tools that are now in the "galaxy collections" suite > makes some sense, but the result is that to get any of the core > modules like "ansible.posix" we wind up including 573 Megabytes of > unneeded and unwelcome debris in > /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible_collections. Very few of us > need more than 10% of the list If you don't need more, don't install 'ansible'. Just install ansible-core and use galaxy or seperate packaged collections to install just what you need. > There is no specific source repository for the "ansible_collections" > tarball, as best I can tell. The list of modules selected from the > galaxy collection is very large, but incomplete and I've not seen any > criteria for what goes in that tarball and what does not. Have you > seen any? Yes, but I can't seem to find it now. ;( Basically it was agreeing to use symantic versioning and agreeing to release on the same schedule as the rest, etc. I don't know if there's further requirements now. I'll find that doc and post it, but kinda weekending now. ;) ...snip... kevin
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