Well I think pkgsrc is wonderful.   I have some questions and
some problems with packages to report.

1) How can I setup my system so that /usr/pkg/bin and
/usr/pkg/sbin are always in my PATH.4, and specifically before
/usr/local/bin?  I know this is pretty basic.  I appologize.

2) How can I setup my system so that /usr/pkg/lib is always
checked for the pkgsrc libraries?  When compiling a pkgsrc package this
seems to happen automatically, but what if I'm compiling
my own programs?

3) Does anyone know what package mkisofs is buried in?

4) Doesn't It seems very odd that svn does not seem to be part of pkgsrc?   I was hoping to compile the server side so 
as to use svn locally for my own work in the future.

5) I noticed that aclocal was not created with devel/automake.
I don't really know what aclocal does, but it was created when
I built automake myself.

6) Some Problems I had with packages

www/lynx 
    During "bmake install" the script looks for gzip in
    /usr/bin/gzip, not /bin/gzip so if fails.  I fixed this
    on my system by linking /bin/gzip to /usr/bin/gzip.

devel/gettext 0.14.6
    When doing "make install" I get the error
        msc: illegal option -g"
        My msc is version 1

www/fcgi 2.4.0 
    This requires -lm to compile,
    One program gets the error
   "undefined reference to 'frexp'"

devel/glib2  2.14.1
    In the middle of the bmake, the script started downloading
    gcc3.3.6, eek! I stopped it.  What happened here?
    This brings up a more general question.   The default
    compiler on my system is the 2.+ one.  Is that what it
    should be?   Are there problems with linking objects
    from different compilers?   How about when there are
    shared libraries involved?

graphics/jasper
    The script stops in bmake with message:
        checking for C compiler default output file name... 
        configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
        See 'config.log' for more details
        I didn't find config.log helpful.
        I don't know what jasper does, but two packages
        I want have it as a prerequisite.
        This is actually quite curious as I didn't
        need it for the older versions I compiled myself.

6) I noticed that there were newer versions of the packages
devel/apr and security/openssl available on-line.   The
newer openssl version has been around a long time, at
least a year.

7) In case you are interested, all of the following packages
were built successfully.

    apr-1.2.9
    autoconf-2.61
    automake-1.10
    bash-3.2.25
    bison-2.3
    bzip2-1.0.4
    db4-4.5.20.2
    fastjar-0.93nb3
    freetype2-2.3.5
    gd-2.0.35
    gdbm-1.8.3nb1
    gettext-asprintf-0.14.6
    gettext-lib-0.14.6
    gettext-m4-0.14.6
    gettext-tools-0.14.6
    gmake-3.81
    gtexinfo-4.8nb7
    jpeg-6bnb4
    libgcrypt-1.2.4
    libgpg-error-1.4nb2
    libiconv-1.11
    libtool-base-1.5.24nb4
    libxml2-2.6.30
    libxslt-1.1.22
    lynx-2.8.6.5nb1
    m4-1.4.10nb2
    openssl-0.9.7inb4
    perl-5.8.8nb4
    pkg-config-0.21nb1
    pkg_install-info-4.5nb3
    png-1.2.20
    popt-1.10.7
    readline-5.2
    tcl-8.4.15
    unzip-5.52nb3
    xmlcatmgr-2.2nb1
    zlib-1.2.3

Thanks for any help.

Mitchell