# Issue adding role dependancies **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 23, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-adding-role-dependancies/17813 "2015-03-23T16:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Geoff\_Webster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Geoff\_Webster](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Geoff_Webster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-adding-role-dependancies/17813/1 "2015-03-23T16:48:29Z")
Hi, I am having issues including a role as a dependency and I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if I hit a bug. I am trying to include a role in another role according to the ansible docs that say to make a rundeck/meta/main.yml where I reference krb5 role rundeck/meta/main.yml ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dick\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Davies)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-adding-role-dependancies/17813/2 "2015-03-24T07:43:56Z")
Your yaml doesn't look mine - try this in the meta.yml: ---
**Author:** ![Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomasz_Kontusz)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-adding-role-dependancies/17813/3 "2015-03-24T08:09:30Z")
meta/main.yml should be a dictionary, not a list. Drop the dash from “- dependencies:”. But the error should be nicer, you can make an issue about that 🙂 Geoff Webster [shamugeoff@gmail.com](mailto:shamugeoff@gmail.com) napisał: ---
**Author:** ![Geoff\_Webster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@Geoff\_Webster](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Geoff_Webster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-adding-role-dependancies/17813/4 "2015-03-24T14:28:16Z")
Thanks, that was the issue. I’ll create an issue for that.