diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 6cd6f738b..bbc750304 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 
+*) 2003-11-10 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
+
+ - Clifford Wolf: added Check-Deps-3 and added a dependency-counter to
+                  Create-ErrList 
+                  fixed bacterium_gui in bacterium package for newer gnu linker
+
 *) 2003-11-09 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
  - fixed stage-9 horror by removing dstructive code from readline.conf
diff --git a/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium.conf b/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium.conf
index 857501d2a..9f84993a6 100644
--- a/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium.conf
+++ b/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium.conf
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 
 pkg_bacterium_main() {
 	postmake="cp -r examples $docdir/" build_this_package
-	srctar="bacterium_gui-0.2.tar.bz2" build_this_package
+	srctar="bacterium_gui-0.2.tar.bz2" \
+		patchfiles="$confdir/bacterium_gui.diff" build_this_package
 }
 
 mainfunction=pkg_bacterium_main
diff --git a/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium_gui.diff b/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium_gui.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb8a39de3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/clifford/bacterium/bacterium_gui.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- ./Makefile.orig	2003-11-09 13:50:16.061560752 +0100
++++ ./Makefile	2003-11-09 13:51:45.827914192 +0100
+@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
+ 
+ all: bacterium_ffd bacterium_gui
+ 
++# place -lncurses after bacterium_ffd.c
++bacterium_ffd: bacterium_ffd.c
++	$(CC) -Wall bacterium_ffd.c -lncurses -o bacterium_ffd
++
+ bacterium_gui: bacterium_gui.sh
+ 	sed 's,./\(bacterium_ffd\),\1,' < bacterium_gui.sh > bacterium_gui
+ 	chmod +x bacterium_gui
diff --git a/scripts/Check-Deps-3 b/scripts/Check-Deps-3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16611d89a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/Check-Deps-3
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
+#
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/scripts/Check-Deps-3
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+# 
+# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+# file for details.
+# 
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+function check_package() {
+	split(pkgline, a);
+	package = a[5];
+
+	if ( package == ARGV[2] ) running = 1;
+
+	if ( ! running ) return;
+	if ( ! index(a[2], stagelevel) ) return;
+
+	split(depdb[package], a);
+	for (c=1; a[c] != ""; c++) {
+		if ( a[c] == package ) continue;
+		if ( broken[a[c]] ) {
+			print "[" stagelevel "] package " \
+				package " depends on " a[c];
+			broken[package]=1;
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+BEGIN {
+	if ( ! ARGV[3] ) {
+		print "Usage: ./scripts/Check-Dep-3 " \
+			"<stagelevel> <package-name> <pkg-list-file>";
+		exit 1;
+	}
+
+	running = 0;
+	broken[ARGV[2]] = 1;
+
+	while ( (getline depline < "scripts/dep_db.txt") > 0 ) {
+		p=depline; sub(":.*", "", p);
+		d=depline; sub("^[^ ] [^ ] [^ ] ", "", d);
+		depdb[p] = d;
+	}
+
+	for (stagelevel=ARGV[1]; stagelevel<=9; stagelevel++) {
+		while ( (getline pkgline < ARGV[3]) > 0 ) {
+			check_package();
+		}
+		close(ARGV[3]);
+	}
+
+	if ( ! running ) {
+		print "Package " ARGV[2] " not found!";
+		exit 1;
+	}
+	exit 0;
+}
+
diff --git a/scripts/Create-ErrList b/scripts/Create-ErrList
index 6eba4eeca..83319940c 100755
--- a/scripts/Create-ErrList
+++ b/scripts/Create-ErrList
@@ -211,7 +211,11 @@ for stagelevel in $( echo $stages | tr -d '[]' | sed 's,.,& ,g' ) ; do
 
 		if [ $this_is_error = 1 ] ; then
 			if [ $showerr = 0 ] ; then
-				echo "[$stagelevel] ${tree:0:15}/${pkg:0:20}"
+				d=$( ./scripts/Check-Deps-3 $stagelevel \
+					$pkg config/$config/packages | \
+					cut -f3 -d' ' | sort -u | wc -l )
+				d="$( printf "%3d" $d )"
+				echo "[$stagelevel] $d ${tree:0:13}/${pkg:0:18}"
 			else
 			  echo ; echo "== $stagelevel-$pkg.err =="
 			  tail -20 "$logdir/$stagelevel-$pkg.err" | \