Just to be clear -- by "unverified source code", you mean a github checkout. You can definitely clone github by HTTPs if you like. Ansible does in fact use yo

Just to be clear -- by "unverified source code", you mean a github checkout. You can definitely clone github by HTTPs if you like. Ansible does in fact use your home directory for writing files by default and the locations are not predictable. There are also OS packages available.