On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:00 PM Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna@redhat.com> wrote:
Hello Rich,

On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 11:27:12AM -0700, Richard Megginson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 11:25 AM Till Maas <till@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Mo., 7. März 2022 um 19:14 Uhr schrieb Richard Megginson <
> > rmeggins@redhat.com>:
> >
> >> Some roles now have dependencies on collections, since with ansible-core
> >> some of the plugins are now external to ansible and only available via
> >> collections.
> >>
> >> for background see
> >> https://github.com/linux-system-roles/storage/issues/258
> >>
> >> The Ansible team regards this as a "not my problem" issue.
> >>
> >> I was thinking of adding a non-standard file like
> >> `meta/collection-requirements.yml` to the roles that need it - at least we
> >> could document that users will have to first do
> >> ansible-galaxy role install linux-system-roles.storage
> >> then use
> >> ansible-galaxy collection install -r
> >> /path/to/roles/linux-system-roles.storage/meta/collection-requirements.yml
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > if a user can install a collection it seems best to me if they also
> > installed the system roles collection instead of the system roles role.
> > Would this allow it to depend on the other collection?
> >
>
> Yes.  It is not a problem for collections to depend on other collections.
> It is only a problem if a role wants to depend on a collection.
>
> There are apparently a lot of users who still like to use roles, for
> various reasons.  So I would like to be able to support such users.

Do those users need to use the ansible-core package, instead of ansible
(which should still include the usual set of modules)?

I.e. do you need to support standalone roles and ansible-core
simultaneously?

I don't know.  I suspect there may be a few users out there who want the smallest footprint possible - ansible-core, a single role, and its dependencies.
 

P.