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> … I think I'd want to switch to pkgbase but that makes me nervous. …

There has been a disproportionate amount of negative noise from people who know too little about pkgbase.

pkgbase is a good thing. A very good thing. A huge game-changer, in terms of testing STABLE and CURRENT.

Why not create a boot environment and try out FreeBSD 15 with pkgbase ? If the experiment is successful just make the boot environment the default otherwise throw it away...

With such powerful tools I find it fascinating that FreeBSD users are not more willing to experiment !

To be honest I've never tried boot environments. I know they are a thing, and I have my whole setup on ZFS, so maybe that's the perfect use case.

I haven't switched to pkgbase. Yet. I don't intend to for the time being. I set up a VM to test it, but I haven't gotten around to actually testing it.