Jeremy C. Reed has collected an excellent list of pkgsrc's strengths. I encourage you to read his post to tech-pkg@ in case you still had doubts about why to use pkgsrc ;-)
His mail contains also some bad things about this packaging system, although the list is very short. Followups to this email list some more items on the negative side.
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