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If you meant the /usr/sfw outdated/incomplete collection, I'm going to chuckle. :p

I'm hoping they filled it out a bit more, and actually included relatively up to date versions of the GNU userland. /usr/sfw is a bit laughable at the moment. No offense intended! I do realize the "issues" behind a lot of the outdatedness, but there has been sufficient time to get that sorted (assuming it was a priority, which I somehow doubt it was. gcc 3.4 here I come!)

$ /usr/sfw/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)

$ /usr/sfw/bin/gmake --version
GNU Make 3.80

$ /usr/sfw/bin/wget --version
GNU Wget 1.9.1

Etc, etc. Most of the userland is 2+ years old, if not older. A lot of useful utilities are missing, so on and so forth. I don't mean to be harsh, I just look forward to the day it's more complete and more "updated". I know stability is paramount (I run servers, trust me - I understand) - but it can be hard to live without some of the "new" functionality, and with some of the tools being as old as they are - it's not just stability considerations keeping them crufty, it's lack of resources being applied to that area of the userland. There are arguments for both positions.