Cowsay should not be enabled by default (2015)

It’s sad that so many people would rather avoid any form of individuality or fun than risk having to tolerate someone else’s idea of fun that they don’t like.

This is not always the case of course

As someone who uses Ansible a lot, I giggled. Once.

Afterwards I figured out how to disable it because the novelty was gone. The output this creates is a slog.

Now I 'have' to remember to create Ansible.cfg files across countless projects because someone thinks this is that funny.

That's the most portable approach; it's the best way for contributors. Otherwise I'd set the environment variable on all of my shells and call it done.

I forget so often that I've been trained to cancel a playbook as soon as I see a cow from fact gathering.

It's more of an annoyance than a real problem.

Anyone with cowsay installed on their controller (this isn't always a workstation or human) is initiated in the 'know how to disable this' crew, and gets to regularly attend meetings

I feel the feature would work better randomly appearing. Maybe make it visually useful, automatic on the slowest-known run.

It retains the novelty because it isn't a constant.