Re: avoiding wayland and pkgbase

void:
> Is make buildworld/installworld also going to call pkg?

no, as i said before, nothing will change about these targets.

the procedure for upgrading pkgbase from source is:

make buildworld buildkernel  # build new binaries in OBJDIR
make update-packages         # create new packages in REPODIR
pkg upgrade                  # install new packages to /

until you run make update-packages, nothing at all happens with
packages.