Hi, I finally found a moment to finish my script to find redundant dependencies, that is such which are listed by a direct dependency of a package, like: A lists B and C, B lists C In this case, A doesn't have to list C, so the listing of 'C' is redundant. I've done some tests with ports from contrib and it seems to work fine so far, but I'd still advise you to manually double check whether what it says is true (e.g. by doing a 'prt-get depends' before and after removing the packages listed as redundant). You can find it at http://jw.tks6.net/files/crux/findredundantdeps Kind regards, Johannes P.S.: yeah, the name sucks -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net