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I wrote my own "package manager".

It's nothing more than three short portable shell scripts, using only ftp, sed, gzip, tar, rm, cd, etc.

Credit to the pkgsrc folks for making things simple enough that this is possible.

However my usage of "packages" is minimal. I prefer statically compiled binaries that I compile myself. And I write scripts to automate the fetching, patching and compiling.