It occurred to me that Peter Schuller wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages:
>> > How does that differ from what wip/pkgmanager already does?
>>
>> I looked at pkgmanager, and discounted it because it depends on common
>> lisp.  I remember also thinking that it didn't do what I want, but now
>> I forget - I should look again.
>
> I gotta ask - are a lot of people annoyed by this? I mean from a user's 
> perspective.

clisp might not be available for their target (Until recently, it wasn't
available for amd64, for example, and sparc64 is still no go)