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Originally Posted by TerryP
Ports are third party software not part of the base system.
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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.