[brynet]

That's not true. OpenBSD's package system was rewritten by Marc Espie many years ago in perl, the utility names are inherited from FreeBSD, but are now otherwise unrelated.

[wglb]

Ah, I misquoted. On the page http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html, they point out that the ports tree concept was borrowed from FreeBSD.