I ran "port lint all", and color-coded up the results in a page: http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/users/afb/lint.html.gz Results: 4191 total, 1089 "green", 2549 "yellow" ("?"), 553 "red" ("!") The green ones have no warnings or errors reported, the yellow have lint warnings only, and the red ones report fatal errors... If you want a special port, you can jump to the anchor directly: lint.html#MacPorts Then there is a link from that, to any errors/warnings reported: lint.html#MacPorts_details --anders PS. Most of the warnings are missing newlines / trailing whitespace. Warning: Line 4 should be a newline (after PortSystem) The errors mostly comes from the omission of required variables. Error: Missing required variable: platforms