Worries about pkg for base

[Erik Lauritsen]

Hi,

I have always really liked the FreeBSD separation between base and the
packages, and I love that you can do a "pkg delete -a" and not worry
about the kernel or the base system.

Occasionally on Linux, especially in the past, a failed update to some
packages renders the entire system unusable, and even Debian with its
"apt --fix-broken" and "apt install -f" sometimes just runs in an
unended loop unable to fix some dependency mess.

With all the work and talk about getting pkg into base, how is this
going to work on FreeBSD? Are we going into the same kind of mess as on
Linux?

Would an "pkg delete -a" then also delete base?

Kind regards,
Erik