I noted gnome-session had been updated and started upgrading it but! 1. many hours later it is still running on my intel core duo @1.86 GHz 2. gcc 4.0 was recomplied 3. python was recompiled at least twice 4. perl 5.8.8 has recomplied I dont know how many times.......many 5. on trying to fetch perl5 5.8.8 the last time I noticed DEBUG wrote "perl5.8.8...blah....gz doesnt seem to exist in /opt/local/......./ perl58/perl58/perl58/perl58 etc etc etc perl58/perl58 (repeated total 9 times) Is it somehow creating a new souce (sub) dir everytime around? or is this just an artifact of multiple dependecies? considering how much time has elapsed, I dont want to stop it if this is "normal" but neither do I want to let it run if its going to fill 50 megs of disk available with more and more copies of perl. what should I do? btw it also bothers me that somewhere in there I saw something like "target = osmac 10.3 " go by. (I have 10.4.10, and the curent xcode and macports) please advise.