About half of my projects are in subersion and half are in git, so I'm going to need subversion, which is where I found the python depdendencies.
ports rdeps subersion
This makes a nice depdendency tree to find things.ports rdeps subersion
This makes a nice depdendency tree to find things.port install git
This took 13 days to build everything, including perl and gcc14.
After fighting the stock macports, I decided to just make a new project: https://github.com/bpdegnan/pismoports and so far, so good.