&gt; To clarify, I think there was mention that PC-BSD had a tendency to be behind the FreeBSD ports releases because it required the extra wrapping.<p>Okay, that&#x27;s true - if the maintainer doesn&#x27;t put in the work or there&#x27;s no maintainer in the first place, the work won&#x27;t get done. I find that&#x27;s true with no matter what ports&#x2F;package manager you choose to use, though, and at any rate, at least back when I experimented with PC-BSD, nothing&#x27;s stopping you from ignoring PC-BSD&#x27;s package manager altogether and just using the vanilla FreeBSD ones.<p>Well, I still think you should give PC-BSD a try some day, though I totally understand if you want to take a break from tinkering and use whatever&#x27;s currently working for you for a while. We&#x27;ve all been there. :)