OpenBSD isn’t using the pkg we are talking about, fwiw. You’ll need to install FreeBSD for that.

Thanks, will try FreeBSD first, then.

OpenBSD's package manager is actually really easy to learn and use. Even I can do it.

I will try both, promise. :) I also find OpenBSD's ideology more resonating to me.

OpenBSD's package manager comes unconfigured out of the box, though :(

Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure which version added it but /etc/installurl is configured to use cdn.openbsd.org during install. Prior to this, I believe /etc/installurl was populated with the mirror you chose during install. That had been around for at least a couple/few versions, IIRC.

Is there something else you are referring to? https://man.openbsd.org/installurl

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.