diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 1c9cbf2db..052f969ac 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -2,12 +2,9 @@ TODO list:
   - who pulls in libxcb?
   - /usr/portage/profiles/updates support
   - deps in profile?
-  - aspell deps & depends?
-  - use frozenset() where possible
   - add gentoo pkg_* triggers logging
   - Community repositories
   - find a way to better handle real smartapps deps
-  - reduce size of packages.db.bz2
   - remove binkeywords, not used
   - add deptest check for every reagent run
   - implement client db sanity check
diff --git a/libraries/databaseTools.py b/libraries/databaseTools.py
index 054a5c9b0..fa444364a 100644
--- a/libraries/databaseTools.py
+++ b/libraries/databaseTools.py
@@ -2994,7 +2994,22 @@ class etpDatabase:
         status = self.cursor.fetchone()
         if status:
             return False
-        return True
+        
+        # also check that dependenciesreference length matches dependstable length
+        self.cursor.execute('select count(*) from dependenciesreference')
+        dependenciesreference_count = self.cursor.fetchone()
+        self.cursor.execute('select count(*) from dependstable')
+        dependstable_count = self.cursor.fetchone()
+        if dependenciesreference_count and dependstable_count:
+            try:
+                if dependenciesreference_count[0] == dependstable_count[0]:
+                    return True
+                else:
+                    return False
+            except:
+                return False
+
+        return False
 
     def createXpakTable(self):
         self.cursor.execute('CREATE TABLE xpakdata ( idpackage INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, data BLOB );')