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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# (c) 2012, Red Hat, Inc
+# Written by Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
+# (c) 2014, Epic Games, Inc.
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+---
+module: package
+version_added: 2.0
+author: Ansible Core Team
+short_description: Generic OS package manager
+description:
+     - Installs, upgrade and removes packages using the underlying OS package manager.
+options:
+  name:
+    description:
+      - "Package name, or package specifier with version, like C(name-1.0). When using state=latest, this can be '*' which means run: yum -y update. You can also pass a url or a local path to a rpm file.  To operate on several packages this can accept a comma separated list of packages or (as of 2.0) a list of packages."
+    required: true
+  state:
+    description:
+      - Whether to install (C(present), C(latest)), or remove (C(absent)) a package.
+    required: true
+requirements:
+    - Whatever is required for the package plugins specific for each system.
+notes:
+    - This module actually calls the pertinent package modules for each system (apt, yum, etc).
+'''
+EXAMPLES = '''
+- name: install the latest version of Vim
+  package: name=vim-minimal state=latest
+
+- name: remove the Vim package
+  package : name=vim-minimal state=absent
+'''