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There are currently 23946[1] FreeBSD ports. Nothing I ever needed in the last 15 years of using FreeBSD was missing. Yes, dependency on glibc and the Linux kernel is sometimes annoying, but in practice it is not an insurmountable problem. Dependency on the Linux kernel is rare and dependency on glibc can usually be easily fixed and upstream is usually happy to accept patches. Systemd is different because there is a lot of software that might decide to use it and you can't just work around it.

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

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