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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This is the binary we are inspecting
+BIN=./target/release/gossip
+
+# This uses ldd to get it's dependencies into a list
+DEPS=$(pacman -F $(ldd "$BIN" | awk '{print $3}') | awk '{print $5}'  | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | tr " " "\n" | sort -u | tr "\n" " ")
+
+# This array will amass dependencies that we wont need to install because they
+# will be pulled in by other dependenices
+TODELETE=
+
+for b in ${DEPS[@]}; do
+    SUBDEPS=$(pacman -Si $b | sed -n "/^Depends On/{s/Depends On *: \(.*\)/\1/;p}" | tr " " "\n" | sort -u | tr "\n" " ")
+
+    CLEANSUBDEPS=""
+    for subdep in $SUBDEPS ; do
+        NEXT=$(echo $subdep | sed -e 's/=.*//' | sed -e 's/>.*//')
+        CLEANSUBDEPS="$CLEANSUBDEPS $NEXT"
+    done
+
+    TODELETE="$TODELETE $CLEANSUBDEPS"
+done
+
+# GET A SORTED UNIQUE LIST
+TODELETE=$(echo $TODELETE | tr " " "\n" | sort -u | tr "\n" " ")
+
+echo $DEPS | tr " " "\n" > /tmp/file1.txt
+echo $TODELETE | tr " " "\n" > /tmp/file2.txt
+
+comm -3 /tmp/file1.txt /tmp/file2.txt | sed '/\t/d'
+
+# json-glib
+# libstemmer
+# libutil-linux  (util-linux-libs)
+# webkit2gtk
+#
+# pacman -S json-glib libstemmer util-linux-libs webkit2gtk