As Graham Perrin pointed out in a reply, there are more such bugs in FreeBSD's pkgbase experiment. They were opened months ago, and they're still open. This is not a finished mechanism. Very clearly not. (-:
I wrote:
"2414 intrigues me, however there's not enough for me to tell whether it's a pkg issue.
"I do know that the big picture includes things being suitably prioritised; for this reason, and others, I have felt no need to bump 2414.
"If additional info is required, they'll ask me in due course."
– <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mct33f/comment/n6...>
With regard to pkgbase,
> … Graham Perrin … not a finished mechanism. Very clearly not. (-:
My experience with pkgbase is clearly very different from your perspective. <https://lobste.rs/s/ikhfqq/pkgbase_removes_freebsd_base_syst...>:
"… I should describe the pkgbase caboodle as ninety-eight percent production-ready. The official packages for FreeBSD-RELEASE have always been _one hundred percent_ production quality. Very few aspects of pkgbase are experimental."