diff --git a/catalyst-3.0_rc1.ebuild b/catalyst-3.0_rc1.ebuild
index 338d0a7..1b45538 100644
--- a/catalyst-3.0_rc1.ebuild
+++ b/catalyst-3.0_rc1.ebuild
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="ccache doc kernel_linux"
+IUSE="ccache doc kernel_linux kernel_FreeBSD"
 
 DEPEND="
 	app-text/asciidoc
@@ -34,20 +34,28 @@ DEPEND="
 "
 RDEPEND="
 	>=dev-python/pydecomp-0.1[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	app-arch/lbzip2
 	app-crypt/shash
-	app-arch/tar[xattr]
 	virtual/cdrtools
 	amd64? ( >=sys-boot/syslinux-3.72 )
 	ia64? ( sys-fs/dosfstools )
 	x86? ( >=sys-boot/syslinux-3.72 )
 	ccache? ( dev-util/ccache )
-	kernel_linux? ( app-misc/zisofs-tools >=sys-fs/squashfs-tools-2.1 )
+	kernel_linux? ( app-arch/tar[xattr] app-arch/lbzip2 app-misc/zisofs-tools >=sys-fs/squashfs-tools-2.1 )
 "
 
 python_prepare_all() {
 	echo VERSION="${PV}" "${PYTHON}" setup.py set_version
 	VERSION="${PV}" "${PYTHON}" setup.py set_version
+
+	if use kernel_FreeBSD; then
+		local conffile="${S}/etc/catalyst.conf"
+		echo '' >> "${conffile}"
+		echo '# Special setting for Gentoo/FreeBSD.' >> "${conffile}"
+		echo 'compression_mode="bzip2"' >> "${conffile}"
+		echo 'decompressor_search_order="bzip2 xz gzip tar"' >> "${conffile}"
+	fi
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
 }
 
 python_compile_all() {