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Thanx for clarification,
Then I believe that I should not have any special problems.
Best regards.

вторник, 10 февраля 2026 г., 1:16 ДП, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> написал:

> hackee wrote in CRIyUTXuehXBE99lRe33_6IfZ5sZmIsIh9v1TOeBVHIXwSuoZ0522ZJUbZHSfnxcljiLFtruM-lnRY1CufB2szqP21hiGHvugZIBQxE2dzA=@proton.me:
> 
> > As far as I understand, FreeBSD 16 is planned to drop distsets support
> > and move entirely to pkgbase. I am writing to ask you to reconsider
> > this decision.
> 
> 
> we aren't removing support for distsets in the build infrastructure.
> we simply won't provide distsets on freebsd.org, and installing FreeBSD
> via distsets will not be supported. however, you can continue to build
> distsets for your own use.
> 
> this will be supported on a "best effort" basis (i.e., if it breaks,
> please send a patch) but several important downstream users including
> CHERI still depend on this, so it shouldn't break too badly.


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