You don’t need to honor the “premise” of the OS, nor do I think the developers of the OS care which software I prefer to run. Run whatever you’re comfortable w

You don’t need to honor the “premise” of the OS, nor do I think the developers of the OS care which software I prefer to run. Run whatever you’re comfortable with. If it was such an issue for them, I’m sure they’d remove the GNU packages they pre-build and host for you. The premise of BSD is you don’t have to use the GNU tools. But they give you the choice.