Hi, This seems to be a significant change to nginx. While I think breaking out modules is a good idea, I was wondering how it was determined which modules are low usage or "needless"? I think some of these module removals actually might break other Gentoo packages in some cases.
> +1. Third-party modules. > + > +Third-party modules, which were previously part of the NGINX package, > +www-servers/nginx, are now separate packages in the www-nginx/ category. > +The Lua, Brotli, headers-more and upload-progress are examples of the > +modules that have been separated. Some of the modules have been removed > +completely due to their apparent low usage and needlessness. > + > +The following is a list of modules that have been removed. If you rely > +on any of the modules outlined below, please file a bug on Gentoo > +Bugzilla[2][3] asking the module to be added. The recommended summary > +for a bug is "www-servers/nginx: please add module MODULE_NAME", where > +MODULE_NAME is the name of the module you would like to see added. > + > +Removed modules: > + - ngx_cache_purge/http_cache_purge_module > + - nginx_ngx_slowfs_cache/http_slowfs_cache_module > + - ngx-fancyindex/http_fancyindex_module > + - ngx_http_auth_pam_module/http_authpam_module > + - nginx_upstream_check_module/http_upstream_check_module > + - ngx_metrics/http_metrics_module > + - naxsi/http_naxsi_module > + - nginx-rtmp-module/rtmp_module > + - nginx-dav-ext-module/http_dav_ext_module > + - ModSecurity-nginx/http_security_module > + - nginx-push-stream-module/http_push_stream_module > + - nginx-sticky-module-ng/http_sticky_module > + - nginx-mogilefs-module/http_mogilefs_module > + - nginx-auth-ldap/http_auth_ldap_module > + - nginx-vod-module/http_vod_module > + - ngx_http_geoip2_module/http_geoip2_module > + >From the removed list above I already see that there are modules that I use all the time and I was wondering if I should file the bugs now preemptively or should I wait for the PR to be merged. Modules in question are: - ngx-fancyindex/http_fancyindex_module: I think it's a really useful module to make direcotry listings nicer with minimal effort. I personally used it for old school open "pub" directories where I just store files for easy access over the web. - nginx-dav-ext-module/http_dav_ext_module: This is required for anyone self hosting anything DAV. One such app in the Gentoo repository is www-apps/baikal, which if paired with DAVx5 [1] Android application, can be used as a self-hosted private contacts and calendar backend. - nginx-vod-module/http_vod_module: Having DASH and friends capability makes it easy to host adaptive bitrate video streaming using simple HTML <video> tags. AFAIK all browsers support DASH for quite some time now. I don't see how simple video streaming is useless. I feel nginx-rtmp-module/rtmp_module falls under this category too since it's used by the popular JW Player, but also can be used by VLC and OBS. - ngx_http_geoip2_module/http_geoip2_module: Interesting choice, especially since GeoIP has been deprecated in favour of GeoIP2 in 2019[2]. It's a useful module, and IMHO and should be kept instead of the old GeoIP one, especially since the old database is not updated any more. Cheers, Zoltan [1] https://www.davx5.com/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190930210358/https://support.maxmind.com/geolite-legacy-discontinuation-notice/
