Upgrade wants unnecessary dependency

Seth McDonald dev at sethm.id.au
Thu Jul 30 04:13:25 UTC 2026


On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 at 00:18:09 -0600, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> diffutils-for-muniversal is coming from the muniversal portgroup.  You must
> somehow be invoking the +universal variant of expat, in your port update
> command.

It seems you're right!  Running `port installed expat`, I saw I had the
universal variant installed.  In fact I apparently had multiple ports of
that variant installed.  No clue why though.

I checked and couldn't find any installed ports that depend on these
universal variants, so I reinstalled them as normal/non-universal ports.
And AFAICT this has fixed the issue; diffutils-for-muniversal is no
longer needed and (so far) no additional problems have occurred.

Thanks for the help!

Take care,
	Seth McDonald.

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