> It's not without precedent. [...] Debian's solution [for qmail] > was packages that, as part of the install, patched, built, and > installed qmail fro

> It's not without precedent. [...] Debian's solution [for qmail] > was packages that, as part of the install, patched, built, and > installed qmail from sources on the target machine. I don't see how this is a relevant comparison in this context beyond the trivial "Debian has had some packages built from source at install time in the past". At the time qmail was shipped in Debian's non-free section, and the resulting binary wasn't being linked to a GPL codebase to get around linking clauses. So I can't see how this has anything to do with what's happening with ZFS here.