Role Includes When Statement

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I am on the most recent version of the devel branch, and I have a role dependency in the meta of that role, and when I set it I have a when statement. Now it skips everything when it runs except a task with_items, and it fails b/c the object is defined, which makes sense because everything else was skipped so the with_items was not defined in the previous steps. I tried to put a when statement on that with_items step but it doesn’t seem to prevent it from running and it gives me a failure.

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when: runs INSIDE the with_items loops, so it cannot prevent definition errors, use |default() as an empty list will skip the loop.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_conditionals.html#loops-and-conditionals