pkgin needs root permission on arm64?

Ted Spradley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm
Organization 97% Talent Free
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I just stumbled on something that surprised me. On amd64 I can do
'pkgin list' or 'pkgin search' as my ordinary user, but on OrangePi 5+
it requires root permission, and the error message is not very helpful.
Is there something I'm not understanding?

netop$ uname -a
NetBSD netop 10.0_STABLE NetBSD 10.0_STABLE (GENERIC64) #0: Wed Jul  3
19:16:46 UTC 2024
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64
evbarm 
netop$ pkgin search desktop 
pkgin: failed to begin immediate transaction 
netop$ doas pkgin search desktop 
3ddesktop-0.2.9nb16  3D Virtual Desktop Switcher
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