ci/deps.perl   | 5 ++++-
 ci/profiles.sh | 3 ++-

diff --git a/ci/deps.perl b/ci/deps.perl
index ad2c11d28f6bc1a4e48799d4d6d8447ec3ad6d67..62870c1f99647992b2bbbf52e572c98b7feb58fe 100755
--- a/ci/deps.perl
+++ b/ci/deps.perl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 # account for granularity differences between package systems and OSes
 my @precious;
 if ($^O eq 'freebsd') {
-	@precious = qw(perl curl Socket6 IO::Compress::Gzip IO::KQueue);
+	@precious = qw(perl curl Socket6 IO::Compress::Gzip);
 } elsif ($pkg_fmt eq 'rpm') {
 	@precious = qw(perl curl);
 }
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
 my (@pkg_install, @pkg_remove, %all);
 for my $ary (values %$profiles) {
 	$all{$_} = \@pkg_remove for @$ary;
+}
+if ($^O eq 'freebsd') {
+	$all{'IO::KQueue'} = \@pkg_remove;
 }
 $profiles->{all} = [ keys %all ]; # pseudo-profile for all packages
 
diff --git a/ci/profiles.sh b/ci/profiles.sh
index 1ddf7891eccb54a69fb4bf02021996c50f9a785c..d559ec5f9b742161b80271a429b62f6442bdab74 100755
--- a/ci/profiles.sh
+++ b/ci/profiles.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@
 case $ID-$VERSION_ID in
 freebsd-11|freebsd-12) sed "s/^/$PKG_FMT /" <<EOF
 all devtest-
-all devtest
+all devtest IO::KQueue-
+all devtest IO::KQueue
 v2essential
 essential
 essential devtest-