Puzzling inconsistency regarding dep

[MK-MacPorts at techno.ms]

On 14 Apr 2014, at 01:52 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> By definition, a build dependency isn’t needed at runtime, so you wouldn’t distribute it, so you wouldn’t care about build dependencies’ distributability, would you?

Hmmm, you’ve got your point.
When I was writing those lines I awaited this kind of a response… I am paddling back. :-)