> So essentially - unless you want to start building packages and maintaining repos - pkgng is at this moment _useless_.
Well since that is the point of pkgng I'm not sure what you're griping about. The effort of it? poudriere allows pretty trivial building and automated repo generation. Is it a little more effort than typing apt-get update? Yup. But you aren't at the whim of repo maintainers on getting new packages in(like most stale Linux distros), or with ideal compile time options, or trying to find a repo that has the packages you're seeking.
> [1] - providing many packages and updates like in the linux distros world, not just "set it and leave it" as they do with the current repos.
With pkgng, you control when the repo is updated and what is updated. It's negligible effort to do so since it's a product of the ports system. I'm not sure what distro you've been using that leaves you with such pie in the sky attitude but it isn't one I'm familiar with. The enterprise distro are all horribly out of date, the bleeding edge are inappropriate for production use, and the in-betweens give you problems from both ends.
