Adam Weinberger wrote on 2017/01/03 17:43:

pkg-message needs to contain only essential information,

But it is not true and never was. pkg-message always contains many other informations.
Or are these really essential?

Message from postgresql94-client-9.4.10_1:
The PostgreSQL port has a collection of "side orders":

postgresql-docs
  For all of the html documentation

p5-Pg
  A perl5 API for client access to PostgreSQL databases.

postgresql-tcltk
  If you want tcl/tk client support.

postgresql-jdbc
  For Java JDBC support.

postgresql-odbc
  For client access from unix applications using ODBC as access
  method. Not needed to access unix PostgreSQL servers from Win32
  using ODBC. See below.

ruby-postgres, py-PyGreSQL
  For client access to PostgreSQL databases using the ruby & python
  languages.

postgresql-plperl, postgresql-pltcl & postgresql-plruby
  For using perl5, tcl & ruby as procedural languages.

postgresql-contrib
  Lots of contributed utilities, postgresql functions and
  datatypes. There you find pg_standby, pgcrypto and many other cool
  things.



otherwise end-users will start to ignore them.

Yes, it applies for PHP extensions spam on each `pkg upgrade` where I get about 20 messages in a row like this:

Message from php56-zlib-5.6.29:
****************************************************************************

The following line has been added to your /usr/local/etc/php/ext-20-zlib.ini
configuration file to automatically load the installed extension:

extension=zlib.so

Totally useless messages taking about 150 lines...
Extensions were always automatically enabled on installation before converting from one php.ini file to many small files.

Miroslav Lachman
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