Upgrading packages (fail)

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <e829d9fe-5b1c-605b-e617-a026c67b850b at holgerdanske.com>, 
David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

>> I've just now tried to correct that via the following commands and actions:
>> 
>>     freebsd-update fetch
>>     freebsd-update install
>
>I do 'pkg update' here.
>
>>     pkg upgrade
>>     (power cycle / reboot)

Wow!  Thanks.  I did that and then the following pkg upgrade step caused a
whole hell of a lot of additional packages installed on my system to get
upgraded.

Also however, a bunch of stuff got removed, but with no real explanation
of why:

    Installed packages to be REMOVED:
            abiword: 3.0.4_1
            gimp: 2.10.24,2
            gimp-app: 2.10.24,1
            gimp-gutenprint: 5.3.3_1
            libwmf: 0.2.12
            wv: 1.2.9_5

So what's up with that?