In my experience, that time was a particular low point for pkgng. It still breaks, of course. I've just been told that FreeBSD 12 has some bizarre manifest pa

In my experience, that time was a particular low point for pkgng. It still breaks, of course. I've just been told that FreeBSD 12 has some bizarre manifest parsing bug that completely contradicts the doco. But it did get markedly better for a while in 10 and 11.