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The BSDs really are a pragmatic family. FreeBSD and PC-BSD share such a common base, that you shouldn't have any issues using binary packages from one on the other -- which is wonderful, as FreeBSD has no binary packages. Here's how-to add PC-BSD binaries to a amd64 FreeBSD 10 box:

Add WITH_PKGNG=yes to your /etc/make.conf

Run pkg2ng to import your old packages

Create a directory for your package cache, mkdir /usr/local/tmp

Create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, containing

packagesite: http://pkg.cdn.pcbsd.org/10-STABLE/amd64 PUBKEY: /usr/local/etc/pkg-pubkey.cert PKG_CACHEDIR: /usr/local/tmp

Pull-down PCD-BSD's certificate, wget -O /usr/local/etc/pkg-pubkey.cert goo.gl/ZQW5UP