Well, after a couple of attempts at installing tcltk (so I can install and run darwinports) the dependencies have been whittled down from 31 to 12.
The following 12 additional packages will be installed:
anacron daemonic findutils libxml2 libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs man python-nox
tcltk-dev tcltk-shlibs xfree86-base zlib
I’m going to divide and conquer here and see what happens: I’ll see if I can get xfree86-base to build and if it fails (my suspicion is that it’s gumming up the works), I’ll install a binary version and work around it.
The other alternative is to punt on fink altogether and see if there’s a way to install tcltk from source: I tried that first but it failed and I went with fink, thinking it might be easier. That may not have been the right way to go after all. I don’t want to install a myriad of unnecessary dependencies. I should know how this all works out by the end of today.