New comment by robertek on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/42484#issuecomment-1448235787 Comment: The main point is to have a support for custom kernel with zfs built in. I came from Gentoo and have a long history of making my own kernel which then boots not only the Gentoo, but even others. It is easy to mask the linux package, but I'm not able to install zfs userland. Actually there are two things, kernel module and userland tools packed to one tar. And the userland tools does not need to be strictly 1:1 to the kernel ZFS version (to some point). I was thinking about opting that out, but since all of this is can be packed to different packages, this seems to be much better to do it that way. I'm not insisting on this change and I'm free to keep it myself for myself. I tried to do that the way it can be shared with others.