This is a C program that checks all the packages on an NFS-mounted mirror of the debian slink distribution and reports: a) packages in main depending on non-main packages b) packages with broken depencancies. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/