John Marino has been working for some time on a project he calls, ‘DPorts’.  You may have noticed his recent commits for it.  He wrote up a summary on users@ to explain what he’s doing.  It’s translating FreeBSD ports to DragonFly in a way that appears to be (relatively) low-maintenance.   It only works on DragonFly 3.3 and up and you can’t use it at the same time as pkgsrc.

Most interesting to me, it gets rid of the quarterly release chase that happens with pkgsrc releases.  Since it’s primarily a binary install system, packages are only upgraded when the results are known to work.