[Bug 254174] pkgbase: uninstalling dbg or other variants of "vital" packages is impossible

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            Bug ID: 254174
           Summary: pkgbase: uninstalling dbg or other variants of "vital"
                    packages is impossible
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: misc
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: me at igalic.co

meena at beastix ~> sudo pkg remove FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 packages
in the universe):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
        FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32: 14.snap20210306210736

Number of packages to be removed: 1

The operation will free 26 MiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
pkg: Cannot delete vital package: FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32!
pkg: If you are sure you want to remove FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32,
pkg: unset the 'vital' flag with: pkg set -v 0 FreeBSD-utilities-dbg-lib32
meena at beastix ~ [3]>

i do not consider -dbg packages vital
heck, i don't think i'd consider lib32 packages vital!

most, if not all packages we split off from vital packages can be marked as
non-vital

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