Wow, some misinformation never dies.

Posted Aug 31, 2006 21:13 UTC (Thu) by sholdowa (guest, #34811) [Link]

My point was that the OP made a sweeping statement that IMHO was almost totally untrue. A package management system is a package management system, is a package management system and the only thing that really makes gentoo's different is the ability/expectation to build from scratch. They're all as good as the data contained within them, and because that's put there by people, they all make mistakes at some time or other.

To address your point, debian allows me to optionally install the following modules for apache 2.0. I could have just as easily used php for an example.

libapache2-mod-annodex - Provides server-side support for Annodex media
libapache2-mod-apreq2 - generic Apache request library - Apache module
libapache2-mod-auth-kerb - apache2 module for Kerberos authentication
libapache2-mod-auth-mysql - Apache 2 module for MySQL authentication
libapache2-mod-auth-pam - module for Apache2 which authenticate using PAM
libapache2-mod-auth-pgsql - Module for Apache2 which provides pgsql authentication
libapache2-mod-auth-plain - Module for Apache2 which provides plaintext authentication
libapache2-mod-auth-sys-group - Module for Apache2 which checks user against system group
libapache2-mod-bt - BitTorrent tracker for the Apache2 web server
libapache2-mod-bt-dev - Header files for mod_bt
libapache2-mod-cband - An Apache 2 module for bandwidth limiting the webserver
libapache2-mod-chroot - run Apache in a secure chroot environment
libapache2-mod-dnssd - Apache 2 module which adds Zeroconf support via avahi
libapache2-mod-encoding - Apache2 module for non-ascii filename interoperability
libapache2-mod-fcgid - an alternative module compat with mod_fastcgi
libapache2-mod-geoip - GeoIP support for apache2
libapache2-mod-ifier - Filter and reject incoming client requests
libapache2-mod-jk - Apache 2 connector for the Tomcat Java servlet engine
libapache2-mod-layout - Apache2 web page content wrapper
libapache2-mod-ldap-userdir - Apache2 module that provides UserDir lookups via LDAP
libapache2-mod-macro - Create macros inside apache2 config files
libapache2-mod-mime-xattr - Apache2 module to get MIME info from filesystem extended attributes
libapache2-mod-musicindex - Browse, stream, download and search through MP3/Ogg/FLAC files
libapache2-mod-ngobjweb - Apache2 module for the SOPE application server
libapache2-mod-perl2 - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server
libapache2-mod-perl2-dev - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server - development files
libapache2-mod-perl2-doc - Integration of perl with the Apache2 web server - documentation
libapache2-mod-php4 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (apache 2.0 module)
libapache2-mod-php5 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (apache 2.0 module)
libapache2-mod-proxy-html - Apache2 filter module for HTML links rewriting
libapache2-mod-python - An Apache module that embeds Python within the server
libapache2-mod-python-doc - An Apache module that embeds Python within the server
libapache2-mod-python2.2 - An Apache 2 module that embeds Python 2.2 within the server
libapache2-mod-python2.3 - An Apache 2 module that embeds Python 2.3 within the server
libapache2-mod-removeip - Module to remove IP from apache2's logs
libapache2-mod-rpaf - module for Apache2 which takes the last IP from the 'X-Forwarded-For' header
libapache2-mod-ruby - Embedding Ruby in the Apache2 web server
libapache2-mod-scgi - Apache module implementing the SCGI protocol.
libapache2-mod-speedycgi - apache2 module to speed up perl scripts by making them persistent
libapache2-mod-suphp - Apache2 module to run php scripts with the owner permissions
libapache2-mod-vhost-hash-alias - Fast and efficient way to manage virtual hosting
libapache2-mod-vhost-ldap - Apache 2 module for Virtual Hosting from LDAP
libapache2-mod-xmlrpc2 - XMLRPC Server module for Apache2 web server
libapache2-modbt-perl - Perl bindings for mod_bt
libapache2-modxslt - XSLT processing module for Apache 2.0.x based on libxml2