Cross compiling (Score 2)

This sounds like a great idea. Since this is still very early on in it's development, I'd like to suggest a feature that I don't think is present in any of the current ports systems: support for cross compiling ports. The NetBSD pkgsrc system has several cross compile packages, but using them to build packages for other architectures is very tricky. I made some modifications to bsd.pkg.mk (available here if anyone's interested) to try to cross compile wterm for netbsd/mac68k on a netbsd/macppc machine, and it mostly worked (had issues linking since the cross linker I had only supported static linking, though everything did compile fine).

There are some issues to be worked out as far as whether dependencies need to built for the host or target architecture, but I think it would be a very useful addition since all of the BSDs support more than one architecture (well Darwin can build for x86 even if it can't actually be booted on x86 machines yet...) Speaking of Darwin support for fat binaries would be interesting, too.