You're right, pkg_add is as dumb as your goldfish. Probably dumber.
This is a feature, not a bug.
If you've ever tried to hack or debug something like yum, you see the advantage. Hacking Yum is almost impossible, and when something goes wrong it usually takes a lot of time to pin down the problem & solve it. It's just too complicated.
Hacking pkg_add is easy, it does one thing, and does it well. Why ask for more?
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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
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