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I'm obviously biased (as one of the developers of IPS), but since some of the BSDs have integrated ZFS, seems like they should use the Solaris packaging system too :-)

https://java.net/projects/ips/

How's FreeBSD's pkgng these days?

See [1] for an explanation of why pkgng isn't useful, especially the April 30th update: "...Port managers are currently working on introducing new-style (as known as "pkgng") binary packages in the coming months, please check the FreeBSD ports announcements list for further gradual status updates."

[1]: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html

It works fine, but there's still no official repository.

Maintaining your own or using a third party is possible, but that's more of a temporary fix.

NetBSD could easily start using OpenBSDs pkg_tools to solve that problem.

How's it different from the pkgsrc tools coupled with the binary packages supplied by NetBSD (e.g. here http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/)

OpenBSD's pkg_tools handle dependencies correctly, allowing you to do things like upgrade packages, dependencies, etc. It provides the same level of experience as apt.