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Hi. I plan to write a new easy_install module and am thinking about how to handle arguments that should be set globally, for example the virtualenv dir and repo index. Currently I use a task to set the defaults, but that doesn’t seem to work with notify and calling it becomes a lot more verbose:

tasks:

  • pip: name=ipython # easy
  • include: tasks/custom-pip.yml state=present name=ipython # hard

What I really want is a subclass of a module, maybe defined in yaml to make it easier. So I’ve created this action_plugin that allows wrapper modules to be written in yaml:

http://pastebin.com/N0QcZsM1

Is there any interest in this being included in core?

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No such way to do this now. Somewhat intentional. Typically you
would set it one place and just use with_items to prevent repeating
yourself.