It occurred to me that Johnny Lam wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.user:
> I'm curious as to how many people are using the pkgsrc "stable" branches 
> (pkgsrc-YYYYQQ).  The pkgsrc developers spend quite a bit of time 
> creating and maintaining these branches, and I want to get a feel for 
> whether this is time well-spent.

Moi. I use it on my laptop, as I'm usually not interested in having the
latest-and-greatest software on it.