# probably a dumb question, but ....

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/probably-a-dumb-question-but/16677>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [November 3, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/probably-a-dumb-question-but/16677 "2014-11-03T22:08:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tennis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tennis\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tennis_Smith)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/probably-a-dumb-question-but/16677/1 "2014-11-03T22:08:23Z")

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Why isn’t there a “galaxy” module for installing roles directly inside ansible?

-T

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/probably-a-dumb-question-but/16677/2 "2014-11-03T23:12:55Z")

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Do you mean a galaxy role that takes a list of galaxy roles to suck down?

That’s an interesting idea, though I believe currently all roles need to be “in” before ansible-playbook is invoked.

It could be done in a two step process perhaps.

I’m wondering if a module might be a better start, that could also take a galaxy requirements file.

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**Author:** ![Tennis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Tennis\_Smith](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tennis_Smith)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/probably-a-dumb-question-but/16677/3 "2014-11-04T15:03:34Z")

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Hi Michael,

Inline.  
-T