Dear all, You'll have to excuse me for my ignorance with regards to Portfiles, since I'm a relative newbe ;) I was playing around with the ghc Portfile in an attempt to update it to the newer ghc version. While playing with this portfile, I noticed that quite a few of the packages I need / use list perl 5.8.8 as a dependency. Macports assumes that the Development Tools are installed. In Leopard, the DT package includes perl 5.8.8 and quite a number of the p5-* packages. The portfile database on macports.org/ports.php lists the perl 5.8.8 package as having no maintainer. Thus, there seems to be no one to do my work for me ;) What I wanted to ask is whether it is possible to create a "dummy" Portfile for Leopard. I tried simply adding the following to the existing perl 5.8.8 Portfile, but ran into (no doubt obvious) trouble: platform darwin 9 { fetch {} checksum {} extract {} patch {} configure {} build {} test {} destroot {} } Is there a cleaner / better way to say "this portfile is installed by default on this platform" or - better still - to check for it and based on that check do or do not do the install? Regards, Philip