FreeBSD Update is doing something it was never designed for. I wrote it as a tool for security updates -- which inherently affect just a handful of files --and

FreeBSD Update is doing something it was never designed for. I wrote it as a tool for security updates -- which inherently affect just a handful of files --and have a number of paranoid checks in it, in order that it can be safely run blindly. We needed a tool for upgrading between releases, and I was able to hack that into FreeBSD Update, but I didn't change the fundamental design. At this point, we're all waiting for pkgbase so there's no reason to revisit the design now.