Pierre-Philipp Braun <ppwb@club-internet.fr>  wrote:
 > > use of ``pkgsrc,'' the NetBSD Packages Collection.  Keeping with
 > > NetBSD's goal of portability, pkgsrc also supports several other
 > > operating systems, thereby allowing consistent installation and
 > > management of third-party software across multiple platforms.
 > (...)
 > 
 > I don't get it, the NetBSD Package Collection is portable on other OSs?

Yes.  I've used pkgsrc on solaris/sparc.