# Difference between apt and pip output when using with\_items

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/difference-between-apt-and-pip-output-when-using-with-items/12155>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [December 21, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/difference-between-apt-and-pip-output-when-using-with-items/12155 "2012-12-21T15:40:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Seth\_Vidal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Seth\_Vidal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Seth_Vidal)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/difference-between-apt-and-pip-output-when-using-with-items/12155/1 "2012-12-21T15:40:31Z")

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I think most of this is b/c all of the pkgs are being handed through to the apt and yum modules as one big line. This is to help speed up multiple package calls - which is extremely common.

If you'd like to return a list of which items were acted on and you settle on what kind of return values you want, let me know for the yum module - last time I checked i'm actually tracking the set of changed items but not specifically returning them.

-sv