# ansible-galaxy init and metadata values

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-init-and-metadata-values/19529>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [October 16, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-init-and-metadata-values/19529 "2015-10-16T17:32:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@Dylan\_Martin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dylan_Martin)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-init-and-metadata-values/19529/1 "2015-10-16T17:32:17Z")

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Hi everyone. I expected this functionality to exist, but I can’t find it so either it does exist and someone can gently point me toward the document I missed or it doesn’t exist and we might want to talk about weather it should exist.

I expected I could write a file like ~/.ansible/galaxy-defaults.yaml that would look like this:

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-init-and-metadata-values/19529/2 "2015-10-16T17:52:30Z")

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We don't have this functionality yet, but I think its a good idea. The  
metadata is now an external template so it is easy to add.

Also, you are not alone, there are other Perl guys here.