Re: More options for nginx

[Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

27. 10. 2014 v 15:09, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>:
> 
> Jean-Yves Moulin <jym%baaz.fr@localhost> writes:
> 
>>> My quick reaction is that gthe nginx package has a crazy amount of
>>> options.
>> 
>> Yes, but the nginx build implies this. Almost everything is a module.
>> I don't know how to do that differently :-)
> 
> Is there a way to have each module be a package (in pkgsrc) that depends
> on the main nginx package?

No, sadly a fat binary is the only way to build Nginx. I guess it goes back to the Russian devs’ fastest-code-ever obsession.

The way the Linux world is trying to cope (nginx-small, nginx-with-feature-X, nginx-full-bang, nginx-should-I-continue) is ridiculous though.

-F