clang-3.6 dependency issue

[René J.V. Bertin]

Hi,

I noticed I still had llvm-3.4 installed, and saw that is cctools and ld64 depend on it. I also noticed llvm-3.6 is now available in MacPorts, so I decided to replace llvm-3.4 with 3.6, and install clang-3.6 . After all, now that Apple provides clang-3.5 and my Linux rigs have upgraded to clang-3.5 too, there's little use to keep an older version, but more in having a newer version.

So I (force) uninstalled cctools, ld64 and llvm-3.4, and because clang lists cctools, ld64 and llvm-3.6 as dependencies I just did a

#> port install clang-3.6 

After upgrading a number of dependencies, I got this:

--->  Computing dependencies for clang-3.6
--->  Dependencies to be installed: cctools llvm-3.5 ld64 llvm-3.6
--->  Fetching archive for llvm-3.5
--->  Attempting to fetch llvm-3.5-3.5.0_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/llvm-3.5
--->  Attempting to fetch llvm-3.5-3.5.0_1.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2.rmd160 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/llvm-3.5
--->  Installing llvm-3.5 @3.5.0_1


I think llvm-3.5 is being pulled in because off cctool's and/or ld64's default variant. Supposing there's no actual need for llvm-3.5, that's not very nice if you know how large that port is.
Is this a case of sloppy Portfile programming, or a result of the fact ports can't depend on variants?

NB: `port info cctools +llvm36 ld64 +llvm36` does not declare a dependency on llvm-3.5, so that at least appears to be correct.

R.