One of the proposed projects for Google’s Summer of Code 2006 is a rewrite of pkg_install, which encompasses the various utility programs used for pkgsrc. The proposal is by Joerg Sonnenberger, who has commit access to both DragonFly and pkgsrc, and has made an astounding quantity of packages work on DragonFly.
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IIRC the OpenBSD folks also did a rewrite of the pkg_ tools[1], unfortunately in perl…
1: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/usr.sbin/pkg_add/