rdepof:wine-devel +x11 +universal fails on installing xattr

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 7, 2018, at 19:19, Kenneth F. Cunningham wrote:

> On 2018-09-07, at 1:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that you are asking MacPorts to install *all* of wine-devel's recursive dependencies with the universal variant:
>> 
>> On Sep 7, 2018, at 12:19, Gijs Vermeulen wrote:
>> 
>>> I tried running port install -v rdepof:wine-devel +x11 +universal but it fails when it tries to install xattr.
>> 
>> That includes the xattr port which you don't need.
> 
> 
> I guess the real problem is that xattr is not a dependency on almost any system, and so it should not come into the list when you look for the rdeps.
> 
> That sounds like a base bug.

What, specifically, do you think the bug is?

Are you saying that you don't want rdeps to include bin or lib dependencies that are already satisfied? Why would that be good?