the openbsd project builds 1700 to 5600 binary packages for each of 12 architectures on a weekly/monthly basis and continuously mirrors them throughout dozens o

the openbsd project builds 1700 to 5600 binary packages for each of 12 architectures on a weekly/monthly basis and continuously mirrors them throughout dozens of ftp sites. building a few dozen or even a few hundred packages for 4 architectures isn't that hard, it's just a matter of resources. someone has to have 4 of those machines sitting around doing nothing but building packages, uploading them somewhere, and then take the time to fix ports and dependencies that don't build on certain architectures. fwiw, i use fink on mac os and it supports binary packages. many of the ports in its stable branch are available as binary packages.