[Bug 234069] ports-mgmt/pkg: 12.0 pkg -r error message

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--- Comment #6 from Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> ---
pkg -r is a rootdir, aka no chroot, the main purpose of this option is to allow
cross installation.

For instance, create a armv6 image in which you do install packages, but do
that from your amd64 laptop.

pkg -r is quite used for such purpose today.
pkg -r is also used by some people packaging stuff but not using the ports tree
at all (yes pkg is not entirely tight to the ports tree).

Again @sample is not a pkg thing it is a port thing (see the Keywords
directory).
And that @sample is not yet ready for pkg -r. meaning the ports tree is not
ready.

If you find a way to document that properly, I will be more that happy to
improve the documentation.

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