@mint hmm.. i dunno, im dead spoiled by gentoo portage and the way bsd handles building by spliting up bins and ports, alongside port dep management. Also no metadata?? i thought it had some custom build scripts. What about patches?

actually after typing this i did look at prt-get, it is compilation based, correct? (no biggie, but i do need to handle deps and upgrades) I just want something that will maintain itself, i don't want to fuck with tarballs by hand