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Wes Morgan wrote:
 > The various COMPAT_FREEBSDn options are part of generic, but are they
 > needed for most users?

I have run with them culled out without issue. They are only needed if 
you run some of the binary only ports that were built against certain 
FreeBSD versions (which then pull in the misc/compat#x ports).