New FAQ? How is pfSense packaged?

[MMacD]

It should be easy to find this answer, but so far I haven't managed to do it.  Maybe it's too simple/obvious?

How is pfSense packaged – as a monolith tightly integrated with (a perhaps stripped-down copy of) fBSD to be installed all in one go; as a package that can be added under an existing install of fBSD; both; something completely different?  ???

[jasonlitka]

@MMacD:

It should be easy to find this answer, but so far I haven't managed to do it.  Maybe it's too simple/obvious?

How is pfSense packaged – as a monolith tightly integrated with (a perhaps stripped-down copy of) fBSD to be installed all in one go; as a package that can be added under an existing install of fBSD; both; something completely different?  ???

It's an appliance distro, not an application to be installed on FreeBSD.

[jimp]

It is a custom build of FreeBSD+extra packages. Custom kernel, lots of changes.

So it's a stand-alone distribution, it is not something that is an "add-on" to FreeBSD in that kind of sense.