[mrweasel]

I don't think that's true for Red Hat, but it is true for Slackware.

If you want packages that works just like the upstream documentation, run Slackware.

Debian does add some really nice features in many of their packages, like a easy way to configure multiple uWSGI application using a file per application in a .d directory. It's a feature of uWSGI, but Debian has just package it up really nicely.