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Old 18th July 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
Ports are third party software not part of the base system.
There is much wisdom in that brief statement. The kernel must provide basic kernel services, nothing more.

Entire linux systems live in /usr/ports/emulators, including Gentoo and Fedora-core. I'm building V4L with 2.6.25 kernel source on Fedora-8 chroot'd in a shell on my BSD system.
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