diff --git a/pkgtool.sh b/pkgtool.sh
index 28e6dfd..e2cd5e9 100755
--- a/pkgtool.sh
+++ b/pkgtool.sh
@@ -50,21 +50,27 @@ pkgtoolp_restart_at() {
 };
 
 pkgtoolp_rdepends() {
-	local	_pkg_name="${1}" _group_name="" _pkg_names="" _rc=0\
-		EX_PKG_BUILD_GROUPS="" EX_PKG_DISABLED="" EX_PKG_FINISHED="" EX_PKG_NAMES=""; _status="";
+	local	_pkg_name="${1}" _group_name="" _pkg_depends="" _pkg_name_rdepend="" _pkg_names=""\
+		_pkg_rdepends="" _rc=0 EX_PKG_BUILD_GROUPS="" EX_PKG_DISABLED="" EX_PKG_RDEPENDS_DIRECT=""; _status="";
 	if ! ex_pkg_load_groups; then
 		_rc=1; _status="Error: failed to load build groups.";
 	elif ! _group_name="$(ex_pkg_find_package "${EX_PKG_BUILD_GROUPS}" "${_pkg_name}")"; then
 		_rc=1; _status="Error: unknown package \`${_pkg_name}'.";
 	elif ! _pkg_names="$(ex_pkg_get_packages "${_group_name}")"; then
 		_rc=1; _status="Error: failed to expand package list of build group \`${_group_name}'.";
-	elif ! ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends "${_group_name}" "${_pkg_names}" "${_pkg_name}" 0; then
+	elif ! ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends_direct "${_group_name}" "${_pkg_names}" "${_pkg_name}"; then
 		_rc=1; _status="Error: failed to unfold reverse dependency-expanded package name list for \`${_pkg_name}'.";
-	elif [ -z "${EX_PKG_NAMES}" ] && [ -z "${EX_PKG_DISABLED}" ]; then
+	elif [ -z "${EX_PKG_DISABLED}" ] && [ -z "${EX_PKG_RDEPENDS_DIRECT}" ]; then
 		rtl_log_msg info "Package \`%s' has no reverse dependencies." "${_pkg_name}";
-	else	if [ -n "${EX_PKG_NAMES}" ]; then
-			rtl_log_msg info "Reverse dependencies of \`%s': %s"\
-					"${_pkg_name}" "$(rtl_lsort "${EX_PKG_NAMES}")";
+	else	for _pkg_name_rdepend in $(rtl_lsort "${EX_PKG_RDEPENDS_DIRECT}"); do
+			_pkg_rdepends="$(rtl_lconcat "${_pkg_rdepends}" "${_pkg_name_rdepend}")";
+			if _pkg_depends="$(rtl_lunfold_depends 'PKG_${_name}_DEPENDS' $(rtl_get_var_unsafe -u "PKG_"${_pkg_name}"_DEPENDS"))"\
+			&& [ -n "${_pkg_depends}" ]; then
+				_pkg_rdepends="$(rtl_lconcat "${_pkg_rdepends}" "${_pkg_depends}")";
+			fi;
+		done;
+		if [ -n "${_pkg_rdepends}" ]; then
+			rtl_log_msg info "Reverse dependencies of \`%s': %s" "${_pkg_name}" "${_pkg_rdepends}";
 		fi;
 		if [ -n "${EX_PKG_DISABLED}" ]; then
 			rtl_log_msg info "Reverse dependencies of \`%s' (disabled packages:) %s"\
diff --git a/subr/ex_pkg.subr b/subr/ex_pkg.subr
index ddd9414..8de0774 100644
--- a/subr/ex_pkg.subr
+++ b/subr/ex_pkg.subr
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ ex_pkg_unfold_depends() {
 # Return:		zero (0) on success, non-zero (>0) on failure, ${EX_PKG_DISABLED}, ${EX_PKG_FINISHED}, and ${EX_PKG_NAMES} set post-return.
 #
 ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends() {
-	local	_group_name="${1}" _pkg_names="${2}" _restart="${3}" _test_finished="${4}"	\
-		_pkg_depends="" _pkg_name="" _pkg_name_depend="" _pkg_rdepends="" _restartfl=0;
+	local	_group_name="${1}" _pkg_names="${2}" _restart="${3}" _test_finished="${4}"\
+		_pkg_depends="" _pkg_name="" _pkg_name_depend="" _pkg_rdepends="";
 	for _pkg_name_depend in ${_restart}; do
 		for _pkg_name in ${_pkg_names}; do
 			if [ "${_pkg_name}" != "${_pkg_name_depend}" ]\
@@ -243,4 +243,33 @@ ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends() {
 	EX_PKG_NAMES="$(rtl_uniq ${_pkg_names})";
 };
 
+#
+# ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends_direct() - unfold list of package names into direct reverse dependency-expanded set of disabled and outstanding package names
+# @_group_name:		build group name
+# @_pkg_names:		list of package names
+# @_restart:		optional whitespace-separated list of package names to rebuild
+#
+# Return:		zero (0) on success, non-zero (>0) on failure, ${EX_PKG_DISABLED} and ${EX_PKG_RDEPENDS_DIRECT} set post-return.
+#
+ex_pkg_unfold_rdepends_direct() {
+	local	_group_name="${1}" _pkg_names="${2}" _restart="${3}"\
+		_pkg_depends="" _pkg_disabled="" _pkg_name="" _pkg_name_depend="" _pkg_rdepends="";
+	for _pkg_name_depend in ${_restart}; do
+		for _pkg_name in ${_pkg_names}; do
+			if [ "${_pkg_name}" != "${_pkg_name_depend}" ]\
+			&& _pkg_depends="$(rtl_get_var_unsafe -u "PKG_${_pkg_name}_DEPENDS")"\
+			&& [ -n "${_pkg_depends}" ]\
+			&& rtl_lmatch "${_pkg_depends}" "${_pkg_name_depend}"; then
+				if [ "x$(rtl_get_var_unsafe -u "PKG_${_pkg_name}_DISABLED")" != "x1" ]; then
+					_pkg_rdepends="$(rtl_lconcat "${_pkg_rdepends}" "${_pkg_name}")";
+				else
+					_pkg_disabled="$(rtl_lconcat "${_pkg_disabled}" "${_pkg_name}")";
+				fi;
+			fi;
+		done;
+	done;
+	EX_PKG_DISABLED="$(rtl_uniq ${_pkg_disabled})";
+	EX_PKG_RDEPENDS_DIRECT="$(rtl_uniq ${_pkg_rdepends})";
+};
+
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