> On Jun 10, 2017, at 23:29, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > I just did "port install wine", and it seeme to be (re)installing half the > known universe... Is this to be expected? Installinh it on Debian was > quite simple - just an "apt-get" or two.
MacPorts Wine is 32-bit. Usually, your other ports will be installed 64-bit. So when you install wine, it will reinstall all of its dependencies with the universal variant, so that they contain both 32-bit and 64-bit code. On Debian and other Linux systems, wine may already be 64-bit, which might explain why you didn't have a similar problem there. There has been a platform-specific reason why wine must be 32-bit on macOS, but allegedly that reason no longer applies as of wine 2.0. Someone has worked on adding 64-bit support to the wine port: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53651 I have not evaluated this.
