# vars\_prompt and playbook includes in our attempt to share "clever" playbooks

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/vars-prompt-and-playbook-includes-in-our-attempt-to-share-clever-playbooks/13080>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [July 7, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vars-prompt-and-playbook-includes-in-our-attempt-to-share-clever-playbooks/13080 "2013-07-07T06:36:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sebastien\_Pastor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Sebastien\_Pastor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastien_Pastor)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vars-prompt-and-playbook-includes-in-our-attempt-to-share-clever-playbooks/13080/1 "2013-07-07T06:36:43Z")

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Well … the bug is that 2 prompts will be fired instead of one in the case where only one group is filled with hosts.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vars-prompt-and-playbook-includes-in-our-attempt-to-share-clever-playbooks/13080/2 "2013-07-07T12:28:09Z")

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Ok, so there’s no github ticket about if the host group is empty it shouldn’t run vars\_prompt.

Please file one if you like.

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**Author:** ![Sebastien\_Pastor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Sebastien\_Pastor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sebastien_Pastor)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vars-prompt-and-playbook-includes-in-our-attempt-to-share-clever-playbooks/13080/3 "2013-07-07T13:07:30Z")

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Will do.

Thanks for all.

Seb