[Bug 249210] `pkg upgrade -x` installs everything that matches

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            Bug ID: 249210
           Summary: `pkg upgrade -x` installs everything that matches
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: lapo at lapo.it

I have a production system where I should upgrade all PHP packages but can't
(currently) upgrade everything, so I tried the following:

# pkg upgrade -x ^php72-
Number of packages to be installed: 960
Number of packages to be upgraded: 45

I was prompted to not only upgrade those matching installed packages (and their
dependencies) but every other (uninstalled) package that matches as well.

>From `man pkg-info` I read:

«Moreover, pkg upgrade will not install new packages, except as required to
fulfil dependencies of the packages listed on the command line.  A caller
should ensure that patterns specified as arguments have installed candidates
for matching.»

…which leads me to think that "pkg upgrade" should only upgrade currently
matched packages, not install new ones. (else, it wouldn't be very different
from "pkg install"?)

I'm probably wrong about my assumptions somewhere but looks to me that either
the behavior is unintended or that sentence could be changed to more closely
represent intended behavior.

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