A manual install of the EPEL repo on a RHEL 8 host doesn't insert spaces around the = sign in the the enabled option under the [epel] section of /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-20-145 ~]$ grep --color=auto -A12 '\[epel\]' /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - $basearch
# It is much more secure to use the metalink, but if you wish to use a local mirror
# place its address here.
#baseurl=https://download.example/pub/epel/8/Everything/$basearch
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-8&arch=$basearch&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
countme=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8
[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - $basearch - Debug
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-20-145 ~]$
Running the geerlingguy.repo-epel role against this host with epel_repo_disable set to false doesn't change whether the repo is enabled on the host. However, the Disable Main EPEL repo. task adds spaces around the = symbol in this option. This misleads the user to think the task disabled the repository.
A manual install of the EPEL repo on a RHEL 8 host doesn't insert spaces around the
=sign in the theenabledoption under the[epel]section of/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.Running the
geerlingguy.repo-epelrole against this host withepel_repo_disableset tofalsedoesn't change whether the repo is enabled on the host. However, theDisable Main EPEL repo.task adds spaces around the=symbol in this option. This misleads the user to think the task disabled the repository.