Puzzling inconsistency regarding dep

[MK-MacPorts at techno.ms]

On 13 Apr 2014, at 18:01 , Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, this is still highlighting an inconsistency.
Yes, right you are, otherwise I wouldn’t have stumbled over it.

> In this case, I think it's between the actual record of dependencies in the package registry (produced by actually installing something) and the pre-recorded list of dependencies in the package index (usually downloaded along with the port tree)? That, or rdeps just ignores anything that isn't a runtime dependency.
Well, that should be clarified, I think, otherwise it might lead over and over again to posts like mine. :-)
Perhaps a warning message would be nice and perhaps an option to enable/disable searching for only-runtime deps.