> They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role, they will have to always keep their fork in sync with upstream which if they try

> They're choosing to switch from a simple packager role to a maintainer role, they will have to always keep their fork in sync with upstream which if they try to apply every changes will require a lot of work, or maybe they have decided on another strategy e.g. freezing functionalities and applying only security patches, I don't know I didn't look at the current types of clean-ups maybe that could hint what their intentions are. In fairness it's always been my impression that a BSD distribution is intended to be much more than a mere packager of software, but instead an integrator of those libraries into a sane, coherent overall operating system. This is the reason OpenSSH has their native version for OpenBSD and then a "portable" version for the rest of the POSIX world.