I'd certainly not discourage having a play around with it! I started trying it out with FreeBSD 10.0 a few years back. pkg was rough around the edges back the

I'd certainly not discourage having a play around with it! I started trying it out with FreeBSD 10.0 a few years back. pkg was rough around the edges back then. If you had a lot of packages installed, like lots of development tools and desktop environments, it wasn't hard to get it into a situation where it would segfault or run into dependency problems during an upgrade. Right now, with 11.2, I've not run into any crashes for a good 2-3 years or any intractable dependency problems in a good 2 years or more. It's probably not perfect, these are very complex tools which are hard to verify, but it's certainly eminently usable from the point of view of an admin/end user/casual ports contributor like myself. In fact, when upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 a few weeks back, I did actually run into a problem with apt refusing to upgrade because it couldn't work out the upgrade path. I had to remove a few packages which were causing problems, then re-install them after the upgrade. Whether that was apt or the packages having genuinely broken dependencies I'm not sure since I didn't investigate in detail.