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> (4)   When I tried to use pkg to make my system fully functional, the
> system declared pkg was not in the base system, I would need to fetch
> it over the Internet.

>Why was something as basic as pkg not included in the base
> system? After all, the system is supposed to be self-contained?

Are you saying that the packages you wanted to install were not 
included, or the pkg command line utilities themselves were not 
included? Which image did you install from?