diff --git a/Mk/Scripts/qa.sh b/Mk/Scripts/qa.sh
--- a/Mk/Scripts/qa.sh
+++ b/Mk/Scripts/qa.sh
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
 }
 
 proxydeps() {
-	local file dep_file dep_file_pkg already rc
+	local file dep_file dep_file_pkg already rc dep_lib_file dep_lib_files
 
 	rc=0
 
@@ -697,6 +697,8 @@
 				rc=1
 			fi
 			already="${already} ${dep_file}"
+			dep_lib_file=$(basename ${dep_file})
+			dep_lib_files="${dep_lib_files} ${dep_lib_file%%.so*}.so"
 		done <<-EOT
 		$(env LD_LIBMAP_DISABLE=1 ldd -a "${STAGEDIR}${file}" | \
 			awk '
@@ -712,6 +714,13 @@
 		sed -e 's/^\.//')
 	EOT
 
+	# Check whether all files in LIB_DPEENDS are actually linked against
+	for _library in ${WANTED_LIBRARIES} ; do
+		if ! listcontains ${_library} "${dep_lib_files}" ; then
+			warn "you might not need LIB_DEPENDS on ${_library}"
+		fi
+	done
+
 	[ -z "${PROXYDEPS_FATAL}" ] && return 0
 
 	return ${rc}
diff --git a/Mk/bsd.port.mk b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
--- a/Mk/bsd.port.mk
+++ b/Mk/bsd.port.mk
@@ -1650,6 +1650,7 @@
 				PKGORIGIN=${PKGORIGIN} \
 				LIB_RUN_DEPENDS='${_LIB_RUN_DEPENDS:C,[^:]*:([^:]*):?.*,\1,}' \
 				UNIFIED_DEPENDS=${_UNIFIED_DEPENDS:C,([^:]*:[^:]*):?.*,\1,:O:u:Q} \
+				WANTED_LIBRARIES='${LIB_DEPENDS:C,([^:]*):([^:]*):?.*,\1,}' \
 				PKGBASE=${PKGBASE} \
 				LICENSE="${LICENSE}" \
 				LICENSE_PERMS="${_LICENSE_PERMS}" \