# Changing defaults for modules like pip **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 31, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/changing-defaults-for-modules-like-pip/13399 "2013-08-31T14:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oliver\_Berger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Oliver\_Berger](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Oliver_Berger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/changing-defaults-for-modules-like-pip/13399/1 "2013-08-31T14:03:14Z")
Hello, I have a bunch of playbooks where "suddenly" while setting up a new machine it turned out, that pip is not working correctly anymore with use\_mirrors=yes (it is eating a lot of RAM and CPU goes to 100%). So I had to append use\_mirrors=no to all pip actions... that was not much in my case, but I can imagine that in larger setups such a thing would be annoying and not everybody wants to touch working playbooks for just "fixing" a problem with default values... Is there a way (if not consider this as a proposition) to globally change or setup the default values for certain actions/commands/modules? My Idea is like this: in ansible.cfg put a line like this: [defaults] hostfile = hosts.ini defaults = defaults.yml may be its also worth of supporting a cmd-line option, e.g. --defaults defaults.yml where defaults.yml contains a subset of module/action options, e.g. - --- pip:   use\_mirrors: no best regards Oliver ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/changing-defaults-for-modules-like-pip/13399/2 "2013-08-31T23:12:36Z")
There is not. I’m not sure why pip is acting weird for you, is there an upstream bug filed on pip about that?