sprocket i/o

It’s always funny when you see one programming language require another to install, but this was an unusual combination. This is what you get when you try to install Ruby Gems using MacPorts:

% sudo port install rb-rubygems
--->  Fetching perl5.8
--->  Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
--->  Extracting perl5.8
--->  Applying patches to perl5.8

In it’s defense, rb-rubygems only depends on autoconf, which requires PERL.