Remove some useless packages.

README.md

@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ Manage some packages from 'utils' section (Apt).
 
 ## Role Variables
 
-* **pkg_utils_new_state** : State of new pkg_utils packages [default : `latest`].
+* **pkg_utils_new_state** : State of new pkg_utils packages [default : `installed`].
+* **pkg_utils_old_state** : State of useless pkg_utils [default : `absent`].
+* **pkg_utils_old_manage** : If this role should manage unwanted packages [default : `true`].
 
 ### OS Specific Variables
 
 Please see default value by Operating System file in [vars][vars directory] directory.
 
 * **pkg_utils_new_list** : The list of packages to install to provide `pkg_utils`.
+* **pkg_utils_old_list** : The list of unwanted packages to remove.
 
 ## Example Playbook
 
@@ -33,6 +36,15 @@ Please see default value by Operating System file in [vars][vars directory] dire
     - role: ipr-cnrs.pkg_utils
 ```
 
+* Don't remove any packages :
+
+``` yml
+- hosts: serverXYZ
+  roles:
+    - role: ipr-cnrs.pkg_utils
+      pkg_utils_old_manage: false
+```
+
 ## Packages
 
 ### New Packages
@@ -69,6 +81,9 @@ sudo multitail -s 2 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/syslog /var/log/mail.log
 * **zip** : Archiver for .zip files.
 * **zsh** : Shell with lots of features.
 
+### Unwanted Packages
+* **vim-tiny** : Compact version of vim editor.
+
 ## Development
 
 This source code comes from our [Gogs instance][pkg_utils source] and the [Github repo][pkg_utils github] exist just to be able to send the role to Ansible Galaxy…

defaults/main.yml

@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@
 # packages
 pkg_utils_new_state: 'installed'
 
+pkg_utils_old_state: 'absent'
+pkg_utils_old_manage: true

tasks/main.yml

@@ -16,4 +16,12 @@
   with_items:
     - '{{ pkg_utils_new_list }}'
 
+- name: Remove useless packages
+  apt:
+    name: '{{ item }}'
+    state: '{{ pkg_utils_old_state }}'
+  with_items:
+    - '{{ pkg_utils_old_list }}'
+  when: pkg_utils_old_manage
+
 # }}}

vars/debian.yml

@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ pkg_utils_new_list:
   - 'vim-scripts'
   - 'zip'
   - 'zsh'
+
+pkg_utils_old_list:
+  - 'vim-tiny'