I wrote my own &quot;package manager&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s nothing more than three short portable shell scripts, using only ftp, sed, gzip, tar, rm, cd, etc.<p>Credit to the pkgsrc folks for making things simple enough that this is possible.<p>However my usage of &quot;packages&quot; is minimal.  I prefer statically compiled binaries that I compile myself.  And I write scripts to automate the fetching, patching and compiling.