diff --git a/repo.sh b/repo.sh
index 80adec4ef..a478cce0b 100755
--- a/repo.sh
+++ b/repo.sh
@@ -93,6 +93,16 @@ mkdir -p "$REPO"
 
 declare -A APPSTREAM_SOURCES
 
+# Currently, we only support runtime dependencies for recipes in the new TOML
+# format. Runtime dependencies include both `[package.dependencies]` and
+# [`package.shared_deps`].
+# 
+# The following adds the package dependencies of the recipes to the repo as
+# well.
+#
+# TODO(?): All of this script can be moved into `cook.rs`.
+recipes="$recipes $(target/release/pkg_deps $toml_recipes)"
+
 for recipe in $recipes
 do
     recipe_path=`target/release/find_recipe $recipe`
@@ -107,9 +117,6 @@ do
         cp -v "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}.toml" "$REPO/$recipe.toml"
     fi
 
-    #TODO: PUBLISH DEPENDENCIES (RECURSIVELY)
-    #grep '^depends = ' "$REPO/$recipe.toml | cut -d '[' -f2 | cut -d ']' -f1 | tr -d ','
-
     if [ -e "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/usr/share/metainfo" ]
     then
         APPSTREAM_SOURCES["$recipe"]="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"
diff --git a/src/bin/cook.rs b/src/bin/cook.rs
index 21fc13b8f..e78834434 100644
--- a/src/bin/cook.rs
+++ b/src/bin/cook.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use cookbook::blake3::blake3_progress;
+use cookbook::package::StageToml;
 use cookbook::recipe::{BuildKind, CookRecipe, PackageRecipe, Recipe, SourceRecipe};
 use cookbook::recipe_find::recipe_find;
 use std::{
@@ -552,11 +553,7 @@ fn auto_deps(stage_dir: &Path, dep_pkgars: &BTreeSet<(String, PathBuf)>) -> BTre
 
     let mut missing = needed.clone();
     // relibc and friends will always be installed
-    for preinstalled in &[
-        "libc.so.6",
-        "libgcc_s.so.1",
-        "libstdc++.so.6",
-    ] {
+    for preinstalled in &["libc.so.6", "libgcc_s.so.1", "libstdc++.so.6"] {
         missing.remove(*preinstalled);
     }
 
@@ -979,14 +976,6 @@ fn package(
         )
         .map_err(|err| format!("failed to create pkgar archive: {:?}", err))?;
 
-        //TODO: share struct with pkgutils?
-        #[derive(serde::Serialize)]
-        struct StageToml {
-            name: String,
-            version: String,
-            target: String,
-            depends: Vec<String>,
-        }
         let mut depends = package.dependencies.clone();
         for dep in auto_deps.iter() {
             if !depends.contains(dep) {
diff --git a/src/bin/pkg_deps.rs b/src/bin/pkg_deps.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2265cdfd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bin/pkg_deps.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+use cookbook::package::StageToml;
+use std::{env::args, process::ExitCode};
+
+/// Same as `cookbook/src/bin/cook.rs`.
+const DEP_DEPTH: usize = 16;
+
+fn usage() {
+    eprintln!("Usage: pkg_deps [package1 package2 ...]");
+}
+
+fn main() -> ExitCode {
+    let names = args().skip(1).collect::<Vec<String>>();
+    let packages = StageToml::new_recursive(&names, DEP_DEPTH).expect("package not found");
+
+    for package in packages {
+        println!("{}", package.name);
+    }
+
+    ExitCode::SUCCESS
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 29b678062..78e3b9a11 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub mod blake3;
+pub mod package;
 pub mod recipe;
 pub mod recipe_find;
 
diff --git a/src/package.rs b/src/package.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..15d1815fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/package.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+use std::{env, fs, path::Path};
+
+use crate::recipe_find::recipe_find;
+
+//TODO: share struct with pkgutils?
+#[derive(PartialEq, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize)]
+pub struct StageToml {
+    pub name: String,
+    pub version: String,
+    pub target: String,
+    pub depends: Vec<String>,
+}
+
+impl StageToml {
+    pub fn new(name: String) -> Result<Self, String> {
+        //TODO: sanitize recipe name?
+        let dir = recipe_find(&name, Path::new("recipes"))?;
+        if dir.is_none() {
+            return Err(format!("failed to find recipe directory '{}'", name));
+        }
+        let dir = dir.unwrap();
+        let target =
+            env::var("TARGET").map_err(|err| format!("failed to read TARGET: {:?}", err))?;
+
+        let file = dir.join("target").join(target).join("stage.toml");
+        if !file.is_file() {
+            return Err(format!("failed to find package file '{}'", file.display()));
+        }
+
+        let toml = fs::read_to_string(&file).map_err(|err| {
+            format!(
+                "failed to read package file '{}': {}\n{:#?}",
+                file.display(),
+                err,
+                err
+            )
+        })?;
+
+        toml::from_str(&toml).map_err(|err| {
+            format!(
+                "failed to parse package file '{}': {}\n{:#?}",
+                file.display(),
+                err,
+                err
+            )
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub fn new_recursive(names: &[String], recursion: usize) -> Result<Vec<Self>, String> {
+        if recursion == 0 {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "recursion limit while processing build dependencies: {:#?}",
+                names
+            ));
+        }
+
+        let mut packages = Vec::new();
+        for name in names {
+            let package = Self::new(name.clone())?;
+
+            let dependencies = Self::new_recursive(&package.depends, recursion - 1)
+                .map_err(|err| format!("{}: failed on loading dependencies:\n{}", name, err))?;
+
+            for dependency in dependencies {
+                if !packages.contains(&dependency) {
+                    packages.push(dependency);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if !packages.contains(&package) {
+                packages.push(package);
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(packages)
+    }
+}