--- ./scripts/script.req	2014-09-10 14:15:28.016954963 +0200
+++ ./scripts/script.req	2014-09-10 14:14:58.614955813 +0200
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 	fi
 }
 
+BLACKLIST="bin/(bash|libsafe|libfakeroot|ocamlrun|perl|python|ruby|sh)" 
+
 # TODO: handle "#!/usr/bin/env foo" somehow
 while read filename; do
     # common cases 
@@ -19,6 +19,17 @@
     INTERP=$(sed -n -e '1s:^#![[:space:]]*\(/[^[:space:]]\{1,\}\).*:\1:p' "$filename")
     if echo $INTERP|grep bin/perl >/dev/null; then
 	    ouput_perl_base
+    elif  echo $INTERP|grep -E "$BLACKLIST" >/dev/null; then
+	    # drop automatically generated dependencies on interpreters we either don't
+	    #  need dependencies on or that we have other dedicated dependency generators
+	    #  for making them duplicate, reducing ~5K packages' dependencies at
+	    #  next rebuild.
+	    # - sh: we really don't need to add these dependencies as they're required by
+	    # glibc and therefore guaranteed to be satisfied
+	    # - perl/python/ruby: we already have dedicated dependency generators for these
+	    # - ocamlrun: we already have ocaml(runtime) for these
+	    # - libsafe|libfakeroot: historically filtered
+	    :
     else
 	    echo $INTERP
     fi