Greetings, As already discussed in the MacPorts-Users list and as described in ticket #11006, the ruby Portfile has unnecessary dependencies: having the whole Tcl/Tk/X11 bloatware as default requirements is slightly over the top, imho :) I have attached a patch for the Portfile to the ticket, which move the 'tcl' and 'tk' ports dependencies to a 'tk' variant and disable the ruby 'tk' extension by default and enable it in the 'tk' variant. <http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/11006> -- Luc Heinrich - luc@honk-honk.com - http://www.honk-honk.com