Is there any word or chance on FreeBSD moving to LibreSSL in base? And perhaps more importantly, with key pre-compiled packages such as nginx? I would be extremely appreciative of any effort that would allow me to use that in place of OpenSSL, while still enjoying everything else that makes FreeBSD uniquely exceptional.

There are already conflicts in the binary packages due to the OpenSSL/LibreSSL in ports...

Can't install openntpd and nginx at the same time :-(

How do you install openntpd at all? It's not in pkg or ports:

╰─ pkg install openntpd Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: No packages available to install matching 'openntpd' have been found in the repositories

╰─ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/openntpd cd: no such file or directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/openntpd

Wrong category:

http://www.freshports.org/net/openntpd/

It is currently marked as ignore, so packages are not built because it requires LibreSSL by default which means it will cause conflicts with stuff that uses OpenSSL.

On July 4th, this commit was added:

https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=395088+0+/usr/...

However I don't think this got merged to the quarterly branch until later, I rebuilt openntpd with OpenSSL on July 5th of this year.