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This package includes the package installation and administration tools:

pkg_add - a utility for installing and upgrading software packages
pkg_admin - perform various administrative tasks to the pkg system
pkg_create - a utility for creating software package distributions
pkg_delete - a utility for deleting previously installed software packages
pkg_info - a utility for displaying information on software packages
pkg_view - a utility for managing package views
linkfarm - a utility for managing symbolic links to package files

This is a copy of NetBSD-current's pkg_* tools in a format which
is able to be installed as a package.  To prevent deinstallation,
they don't register themselves as a package.  On NetBSD, they simply
replace the tools in /usr/sbin.