It's also not too much trouble (albeit a little annoying mostly because of TCL) but to have local port definitions for anything you need that isn't in the tree

It's also not too much trouble (albeit a little annoying mostly because of TCL) but to have local port definitions for anything you need that isn't in the tree: https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories https://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories