Unicorn.DataProvider.10.1.config role:require setting prevents the config from being loaded on XM0 about unicorn

[cassidydotdk]

Yea it's a little bit fuzzy, since Sitecore and the roles it ships with has changed a bit over the years while Unicorn at least attempts to remain as compatible as possible with as many versions as possible. The reason I've not made the change you suggest is also the same reason you mention yourself; if I change the default role to Standalone or ContentManagement this might come as a surprise to people who are currently deploying to an upstream environment where they expect the dataprovider to be inactive.

Possibly the best solution would be to make this driven by an environment variable of some sort, but I'm not entirely certain that this is actually possible. Something along the lines of role:require="$(env:UNICORN_DATAPROVIDER_ROLE)" or some such. Definitely open to any suggestions you could offer - as long as they don't introduce a "surprise gotcha" to existing installations.

[markgibbons25]

I think it should be safe to change it to Standalone or ContentManagement, in the new world of more XM and less XP, we are going to see more people with only ContentManagement role enabled.