Folks, 

all of my experience with building applications on a unix platform is with ant and a java environment and this is the first time I've tried to use darwinports.  I tried it because I wanted a copy of scite for my mac.  I'm running one of the first intel based mac minis with the latest version of Tiger.

Following the instructions on the website

This is a two-step process and is easy to get working. The first step is to download and run the Darwin Ports installer located here:download.darwinports.com. The second step is to update the ports so that they are current on your Mac. To do this, open a terminal window and check the project out of the CVS repository with the following command and enter the root password when prompted:

% sudo port -d selfupdate 
Password: 

1. I downloaded the binaries for darwinports ver 1.5 and let it do the default install
   

2. sudo port would run even if /opt/local/bin was the current directory so I added /opt/local/bin to the path like so:
   

3. once the selfupdate was running I started seeing some messages about macports that's when I started getting confused but pressed on 
   

4. I tried to cd to /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/scite but that directory didn't exist
   

5. I just ran sudo port install scite from the /opt/local/bin directory and it went off and started pulling down what I hope were just scite's dependencies, but I was a little worried because I wasn't running the install from the directory specified on the website.  Eventually the install failed with the following error:
   

--->  Fetching XFree86
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: 

                    You have an Apple X11SDK installation already.
                        MacPorts will not overwrite it.

                    If you wish to use Apple X11,
                        install it from your Mac OS X install disc.

                    If you really want to use XFree86 instead,
                        please move it aside first :

                            sudo mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.apple
            
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 cairo xrender XFree86 gtk-doc docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xsl libxml2 perl5.8 scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 libxslt p5-xml-parser jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff xorg
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Based on this experience I've got a couple of questions

1. Does macports 1.6 replace darwinports 1.5 and should I be using macports instead
   

2. If I should be using macports 1.6 do I need to uninstall darwinports and install macports. 
   

3. The macports installation instructions talk about installing x11 support and XCode support which sounds like it may be related to the error above but I don't understand the instructions in light of the fact that I've already got x11 installed
   

4. can someone please provide detailed instructions on how to clean things up and move forward.  I can provide the output from the entire terminal session but I wasn't sure if the list manager would allow me to attach a file to this email  
   

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Kurt