FWIW, this may not be useful to some, but here's a (not-very-detailed) report on all the zope.* packages in Zope's SVN and the number of transitive dependencies they have. They are sorted in the order of most-dependencies-to-fewest. zope.introspectorui/trunk/ OK (96 dependencies) zope.paste/trunk/ OK (73 dependencies) zope.locking/trunk/ OK (72 dependencies) zope.html/trunk/ OK (71 dependencies) zope.psycopgda/trunk/ OK (65 dependencies) zope.testrecorder/trunk/ OK (63 dependencies) zope.formlib/trunk/ OK (62 dependencies) zope.catalog/trunk/ OK (36 dependencies) zope.principalannotation/trunk/ OK (35 dependencies) zope.rdb/trunk/ OK (34 dependencies) zope.intid/trunk/ OK (34 dependencies) zope.fssync/trunk/ OK (34 dependencies) zope.file/trunk/ OK (34 dependencies) zope.site/trunk/ OK (33 dependencies) zope.error/trunk/ OK (33 dependencies) zope.copypastemove/trunk/ OK (33 dependencies) zope.filerepresentation/trunk/ OK (32 dependencies) zope.container/trunk/ OK (32 dependencies) zope.viewlet/trunk/ OK (30 dependencies) zope.session/trunk/ OK (24 dependencies) zope.securitypolicy/trunk/ OK (21 dependencies) zope.introspector/trunk/ OK (20 dependencies) zope.contentprovider/trunk/ OK (20 dependencies) zope.traversing/trunk/ OK (18 dependencies) zope.server/trunk/ OK (18 dependencies) zope.bobo/trunk/ OK (18 dependencies) zope.publisher/trunk/ OK (17 dependencies) zope.principalregistry/trunk/ OK (15 dependencies) zope.sendmail/trunk/ OK (13 dependencies) zope.keyreference/trunk/ OK (13 dependencies) zope.authentication/trunk/ OK (13 dependencies) zope.wfmc/trunk/ OK (12 dependencies) zope.release/trunk/ OK (12 dependencies) zope.security/trunk/ OK (11 dependencies) zope.dublincore/trunk/ OK (11 dependencies) zope.pypisupport/trunk/ OK (10 dependencies) zope.minmax/trunk/ OK (10 dependencies) zope.kgs/trunk/ OK (10 dependencies) zope.index/trunk/ OK (10 dependencies) zope.bforest/trunk/ OK (10 dependencies) zope.annotation/trunk/ OK (09 dependencies) zope.testbrowser/trunk/ OK (08 dependencies) zope.location/trunk/ OK (08 dependencies) zope.mimetype/trunk/ OK (07 dependencies) zope.i18n/trunk/ OK (07 dependencies) zope.modulealias/trunk/ OK (06 dependencies) zope.pagetemplate/trunk/ OK (05 dependencies) zope.configuration/trunk/ OK (05 dependencies) zope.tales/trunk/ OK (04 dependencies) zope.sqlalchemy/trunk/ OK (04 dependencies) zope.schema/trunk/ OK (04 dependencies) zope.lifecycleevent/trunk/ OK (04 dependencies) zope.httpformdate/trunk/ OK (04 dependencies) zope.tal/trunk/ OK (03 dependencies) zope.size/trunk/ OK (03 dependencies) zope.deferredimport/trunk/ OK (03 dependencies) zope.component/trunk/ OK (03 dependencies) zope.testing/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.proxy/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.processlifetime/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.password/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.httpform/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.exceptions/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.documenttemplate/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.copy/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.browser/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.broken/trunk/ OK (02 dependencies) zope.z2release/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.xmlpickle/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.thread/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.structuredtext/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.sequencesort/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.interface/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.i18nmessageid/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.hookable/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.globalrequest/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.fixers/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.event/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.dottedname/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.deprecation/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.dependencytool/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.decorator/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.datetime/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.contenttype/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.cachedescriptors/trunk/ OK (01 dependencies) zope.weakset/trunk/ OK (00 dependencies) zope.timestamp/trunk/ OK (00 dependencies) zope.importtool/trunk/ OK (00 dependencies) A lot of nice work since the last time I did this (mid-2007 or so), when a lot of these packages pulled in "the world". - C