diff --git a/main/aconf/APKBUILD b/main/aconf/APKBUILD
index 40232e28af4173afce28ae52fb813fb33b9e4216..4d14f355a481ac100afddee125c3bf87458ce800 100644
--- a/main/aconf/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/aconf/APKBUILD
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ for _m in $_modules; do
 	eval "_deps_$_e=$_m"
 done
 
-_deps_dns_zone=
-_deps_network=
-
 package() {
 	make LUA_VERSION=$_luaver ROOT_DIR=$pkgdir install
 	install -m755 -D "$srcdir"/$pkgname.initd "$pkgdir"/etc/init.d/$pkgname
diff --git a/main/alpine-base/APKBUILD b/main/alpine-base/APKBUILD
index caa04885eb5d605760de2bd20139004612dee37d..3b3119c54124838be312061864632e516aa430ab 100644
--- a/main/alpine-base/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/alpine-base/APKBUILD
@@ -19,11 +19,8 @@ depends="
 	libc-utils
 	openrc
 	"
-makedepends=""
-install=""
 subpackages="alpine-release:release"
 replaces="alpine-baselayout"
-source=""
 options="!check"
 
 build() {
diff --git a/main/amavis/APKBUILD b/main/amavis/APKBUILD
index 943d4bb7fd073ca6949f1241ba3860fcfd1a9176..4f83cc91de7e854e87661501db622975bf8b5b14 100644
--- a/main/amavis/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/amavis/APKBUILD
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ depends="sed file perl perl-archive-zip perl-carp perl-convert-tnef
 	perl-io-socket-inet6 perl-io-socket-ssl
 	perl-mail-spamassassin
 	"
-makedepends=""
 install="$pkgname.pre-install"
 options="!check"
 subpackages="$pkgname-openrc"
diff --git a/main/aports-build/APKBUILD b/main/aports-build/APKBUILD
index 0e043501b0a0b2c25002b9ce0477210c2df8a7a4..845cfdf0e66337157bfda43cb7e666d073bc62d5 100644
--- a/main/aports-build/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/aports-build/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ license="GPL-2.0"
 options="!check"
 depends="abuild>2.20.0 build-base mosquitto-clients openssh-client mqtt-exec
 	rsync lua-aports>1.0.0 lua5.2-cjson lua5.2-mqtt-publish pigz git"
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="$depends_dev mosquitto-dev"
 install="$pkgname.pre-install"
-subpackages=""
 
 source="aports-build
 	aports-build.initd
diff --git a/main/dnstop/APKBUILD b/main/dnstop/APKBUILD
index 43b96e706f34c139a6ccc90f95ed51b10e44bc01..b2f9793cf0a5cf2a457da6935fbaf0d08df0ea23 100644
--- a/main/dnstop/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/dnstop/APKBUILD
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="A DNS traffic capture utility"
 url="http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/"
 arch="all"
 license="BSD-3-Clause"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="libpcap-dev ncurses-dev"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://dns.measurement-factory.com/tools/dnstop/src/dnstop-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	musl-fix.patch
diff --git a/main/efibootmgr/APKBUILD b/main/efibootmgr/APKBUILD
index ec13350a3a9bceccc1bf6d4ed60723199891d867..75de19cf98e1236fe96a1047c7d7677afd059ce7 100644
--- a/main/efibootmgr/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/efibootmgr/APKBUILD
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware In
 url="https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr"
 arch="x86 x86_64 armhf armv7 aarch64"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-depends=""
 makedepends="efivar-dev linux-headers popt-dev gettext-dev"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz
 	musl-gettext.patch"
diff --git a/main/flashcache-utils/APKBUILD b/main/flashcache-utils/APKBUILD
index aecd7244ee81cb78f8773b1cb0bdfd7feea4e8ad..c2eda9afe9bdcf22ef2fc4fb669acf8eb76c163c 100644
--- a/main/flashcache-utils/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/flashcache-utils/APKBUILD
@@ -6,11 +6,7 @@ pkgdesc="Userspace utilities for flashcache"
 url="https://github.com/facebookarchive/flashcache"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="$depends_dev linux-headers"
-install=""
-subpackages=""
 source="flashcache-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/facebookarchive/flashcache/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
 builddir="$srcdir"/flashcache-$pkgver/src
diff --git a/main/gvpe/APKBUILD b/main/gvpe/APKBUILD
index 7c53d7e908dff7271191954458d1a598e2601c3e..e692a92c4c392c40675243bb57b01e502d073b3b 100644
--- a/main/gvpe/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/gvpe/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ pkgdesc="GNU Virtual Private Ethernet"
 url="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/gvpe.html"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-depends=""
 makedepends="openssl-dev>3 libev-dev zlib-dev gmp-dev linux-headers"
 source="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gvpe/gvpe-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	compile-fix.patch
diff --git a/main/haserl/APKBUILD b/main/haserl/APKBUILD
index 335ed6d664d4c5c9ca1352b435928f5cb3fe4e9d..2482eee1a256e9cd6aadfd21082c72bdfc2029e5 100644
--- a/main/haserl/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/haserl/APKBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ pkgdesc="Html And Shell Embedded Report Language"
 url="https://haserl.sourceforge.net/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-depends=""
 makedepends="automake autoconf"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 for _i in $_luaversions; do
diff --git a/main/hunspell-pt-br/APKBUILD b/main/hunspell-pt-br/APKBUILD
index d442963b3d985617f595f6352f6bed1b5c73f6ba..d84911f56aa17cc636d4d81879b733a673560e9c 100644
--- a/main/hunspell-pt-br/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/hunspell-pt-br/APKBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ pkgdesc="Portuguese (Brazil) hunspell dictionaries"
 url="https://pt-br.libreoffice.org/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="LGPL-3.0 MPL"
-depends=""
-makedepends=""
 source="https://pt-br.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/PT-BR-Documents/VERO/VeroptBRV320AOC.oxt
 	"
 
diff --git a/main/hypermail/APKBUILD b/main/hypermail/APKBUILD
index 48c073ac547ad42037673c978dc0918f2cbcbecb..42fc71a4ad8100547a999896de23801e85a5ec96 100644
--- a/main/hypermail/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/hypermail/APKBUILD
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 depends="lua"
 makedepends="pcre-dev bison gdbm-dev"
-install=""
-subpackages=""
 source="http://www.hypermail-project.org/hypermail-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	mdir2mbox.lua"
 
diff --git a/main/ifupdown-ng/APKBUILD b/main/ifupdown-ng/APKBUILD
index 89f1f37a274a817494d98a275ae04eab95380ee0..f6dc77aab419806bcfd7f086d0b184e8a008c5c2 100644
--- a/main/ifupdown-ng/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/ifupdown-ng/APKBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="ISC"
 checkdepends="kyua atf"
 makedepends="scdoc"
-install=""
 subpackages="
 	$pkgname-doc
 	$pkgname-iproute2
diff --git a/main/imap/APKBUILD b/main/imap/APKBUILD
index 0d303519f3371464695ed3ad35bc5e68aae3c7df..198abf8d5fdb7b2b6ce8f2e5b38838794d869252 100644
--- a/main/imap/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/imap/APKBUILD
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ url="http://www.washington.edu/imap"
 arch="all"
 license="Apache-2.0"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev c-client:cclient"
-depends=""
 makedepends="openssl-dev>3"
 source="http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/net/mail/imap/imap-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	fix-linking.patch
diff --git a/main/installkernel/APKBUILD b/main/installkernel/APKBUILD
index 52fad335912508a7cb9ece7186eb23400da7ec74..6db7dec048b826bc043a76e5ac382d5a12dfcb95 100644
--- a/main/installkernel/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/installkernel/APKBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ pkgdesc="Alpine Linux Kernel install script"
 url="https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/installkernel"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-subpackages=""
-depends=""
 options="!check" # no test suite
 source="installkernel"
 
diff --git a/main/ldapvi/APKBUILD b/main/ldapvi/APKBUILD
index 5036547d9c05737e761b751c0c6882964ed71d35..afcf4060d497551d775d83f0a14400fe8b1b1412 100644
--- a/main/ldapvi/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/ldapvi/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ pkgdesc="ldapvi is an interactive LDAP client for Unix terminals"
 url="http://www.lichteblau.com/ldapvi/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL"
-depends=""
 makedepends="ncurses-dev openldap-dev popt-dev readline-dev glib-dev openssl-dev>3"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://www.lichteblau.com/download/ldapvi-$pkgver.tar.gz
diff --git a/main/libdaemon/APKBUILD b/main/libdaemon/APKBUILD
index e2a59dcc865a67b08f8848339faa0ffee265c536..cede8c922f14299ef367a9246d2d0c79957bbb02 100644
--- a/main/libdaemon/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libdaemon/APKBUILD
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ url="http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/"
 arch="all"
 license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 options="!check"  # No test suite.
-depends=""
-makedepends=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
 source="https://dev.alpinelinux.org/archive/libdaemon/libdaemon-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	fix-includes.patch
diff --git a/main/liblogging/APKBUILD b/main/liblogging/APKBUILD
index cf8dc304c23db2484cfd4aa10230191757f2cde9..0770cd5ec347ff25ece868f0a034a9aa121e9b09 100644
--- a/main/liblogging/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/liblogging/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ pkgdesc="An easy to use logging library"
 url="http://www.liblogging.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="BSD-2-Clause"
-depends=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
 source="http://download.rsyslog.com/liblogging/liblogging-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/libxfixes/APKBUILD b/main/libxfixes/APKBUILD
index 144d9c0121fc6a3168c6202f6e87cd4f068e9e7e..f1952f564e622992dda59429750752bf36c22646 100644
--- a/main/libxfixes/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libxfixes/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="custom"
 options="!check"  # No test suite.
-depends=
 makedepends="xorgproto libx11-dev util-macros"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
 source="https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXfixes-$pkgver.tar.bz2"
diff --git a/main/linux-lts/APKBUILD b/main/linux-lts/APKBUILD
index 173f2103daa8f7d93f4d91c467f1edffbb337556..a79947ff83a97b98144530c191e25fc918b05497 100644
--- a/main/linux-lts/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/linux-lts/APKBUILD
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ makedepends="$_depends_dev sed installkernel bc linux-headers linux-firmware-any
 	diffutils findutils zstd pahole python3"
 options="!strip"
 _config=${config:-config-lts.${CARCH}}
-install=
 source="https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v${pkgver%%.*}.x/linux-$_kernver.tar.xz
 	0001-powerpc-config-defang-gcc-check-for-stack-protector-.patch
 	0001-x86-Compress-vmlinux-with-zstd-19-instead-of-22.patch
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ source="https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v${pkgver%%.*}.x/linux-$_kernver
 	virt.x86_64.config
 	"
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev:_dev:$CBUILD_ARCH $pkgname-doc"
-_flavors=
 for _i in $source; do
 	case $_i in
 	*.$CARCH.config)
diff --git a/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD b/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
index c71a4fac404e78600ba79d79962a989962285d64..665c54a03d1110b11f24f6f45e4c5602994ac0e2 100644
--- a/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/linux-rpi/APKBUILD
@@ -29,10 +29,8 @@ source="https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-$_kernver.tar.xz
 	config-changes-rpi4.armv7
 	config-changes-rpi4.aarch64
 	"
-subpackages=""
 arch="armhf armv7 aarch64"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-_flavors=
 for _i in $source; do
 	case $_i in
 	config-*.$CARCH)
diff --git a/main/lua-dns/APKBUILD b/main/lua-dns/APKBUILD
index cb00712b8dcb693f32223af902bc5794cf7af0ef..20348509e85c53f51c6e3a3d6c9f43ff9ec86eda 100644
--- a/main/lua-dns/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/lua-dns/APKBUILD
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ url="https://github.com/abma/dns.lua"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL"
 depends="lua lua-socket"
-makedepends=
-install=
-subpackages=
 # Was found here: http://ztact.com/files/src/ztact-lua/
 source="dns.lua ztact.lua"
 
diff --git a/main/lua-subprocess/APKBUILD b/main/lua-subprocess/APKBUILD
index d35e7048d7daa3c8c937fa896b6de710666d01b6..436f66121d4b8a665831585f306f674568c5a70e 100644
--- a/main/lua-subprocess/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/lua-subprocess/APKBUILD
@@ -9,11 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="A Lua module written in C that allows you to create child processes and
 url="https://github.com/tdtrask/lua-subprocess"
 arch="all"
 license="AS-IS"
-depends=""
-install=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="$depends_dev asciidoc"
-subpackages=""
 for _i in $_luaversions; do
 	makedepends="$makedepends lua$_i-dev"
 	subpackages="$subpackages lua$_i-subprocess:split_${_i/./_}"
diff --git a/main/lua5.2/APKBUILD b/main/lua5.2/APKBUILD
index 6d495159bc64260ad641819c78a61f85e3c57b63..e9821a117bdd9ed2c34ea962b2ce01ae9a81dfdd 100644
--- a/main/lua5.2/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/lua5.2/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ pkgdesc="Powerful light-weight programming language"
 url="https://www.lua.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="MIT"
-depends=
 ldpath="/usr/lib/$pkgname"
 makedepends="libtool autoconf automake"
 provides="lua"
diff --git a/main/macifrename/APKBUILD b/main/macifrename/APKBUILD
index c4a6a2240bac25606014e04a76ef7f5b357fa9af..bf756977cd48a4a34262d2c80ceb3c9e1f922e82 100644
--- a/main/macifrename/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/macifrename/APKBUILD
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="stably rename NICs based on MAC addresses"
 url="https://git.sr.ht/~kaniini/macifrename"
 arch="all"
 license="ISC"
-depends=""
 makedepends="linux-headers"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-openrc"
 source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://git.sr.ht/~kaniini/macifrename/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz
 	macifrename.initd
diff --git a/main/mqtt-exec/APKBUILD b/main/mqtt-exec/APKBUILD
index 92bcd01f4be07d31bfe6f0bc2093c3165087b011..40b489f49bc6bf1cde524748f49610fe640f371c 100644
--- a/main/mqtt-exec/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/mqtt-exec/APKBUILD
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ pkgdesc="simple MQTT client that executes a command on messages"
 url="https://github.com/ncopa/mqtt-exec"
 arch="all"
 license="MIT"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="$depends_dev mosquitto-dev"
 options="!check" # no checks available.
 subpackages="$pkgname-dbg $pkgname-openrc"
diff --git a/main/nginx/APKBUILD b/main/nginx/APKBUILD
index 93cbb6442d3004cb755aa50dd926384fa18f07f3..3940c860e580c57df30b505dc31d5d8fadbd79e6 100644
--- a/main/nginx/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/nginx/APKBUILD
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ pkgdesc="HTTP and reverse proxy server (stable version)"
 url="https://www.nginx.org/"
 arch="all"
 license="BSD-2-Clause"
-depends=""
 makedepends="
 	brotli-dev
 	gd-dev
diff --git a/main/openjade/APKBUILD b/main/openjade/APKBUILD
index 05a57dfe1ad9155692e84c44cdfece2f6689a1d7..421684474b8f6caa2d2d65093f347686d71a3766 100644
--- a/main/openjade/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/openjade/APKBUILD
@@ -8,10 +8,7 @@ pkgdesc="Implementation of the DSSSL style language"
 url="https://openjade.sourceforge.net/"
 arch="all"
 license="custom"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="$depends_dev opensp-dev perl libtool autoconf"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-libs $pkgname-doc"
 source="https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openjade/openjade-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	openjade-1.3.2-msggen.pl.patch
diff --git a/main/openldap/APKBUILD b/main/openldap/APKBUILD
index 3afe1b1d0f864c505fdfb2b09dbb5816d1d3af4d..b7a15f47e89998a5d0dd7804689fcd53166890bc 100644
--- a/main/openldap/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/openldap/APKBUILD
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ _overlays="
 	unique
 	valsort
 	"
-_overlay_pkgs=""
 for _name in $_overlays; do
 	subpackages="$subpackages $pkgname-overlay-$_name:_overlay"
 	_overlay_pkgs="$_overlay_pkgs $pkgname-overlay-$_name"
diff --git a/main/opennhrp/APKBUILD b/main/opennhrp/APKBUILD
index 63a3ccc4c07a259c7f953a9abb964596748f2d31..deaed0c8d4e3dd46b96c428d8e2821c7b53fca06 100644
--- a/main/opennhrp/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/opennhrp/APKBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ pkgdesc="NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol daemon"
 url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/opennhrp"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-depends=
 makedepends="c-ares-dev linux-headers"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/opennhrp/opennhrp-$pkgver.tar.bz2
diff --git a/main/patch/APKBUILD b/main/patch/APKBUILD
index 2e838883c8bd3e91ab32060aa4eab82dcbd752bc..c92cccf732fe18a59d278efa3a9eec2b10e065d6 100644
--- a/main/patch/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/patch/APKBUILD
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ pkgdesc="Utility to apply diffs to files"
 url="https://www.gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
-depends=""
 makedepends="autoconf automake"
 # testsuite needs coreutils due to bug in busybox `cat -ve`
 # http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2018-April/086401.html
diff --git a/main/perl-class-accessor-chained/APKBUILD b/main/perl-class-accessor-chained/APKBUILD
index 106b8d6be8a2de8d3e383eef3791b373534a7692..68c516dfa0abb138f3922947f0e29ade0592b602 100644
--- a/main/perl-class-accessor-chained/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-class-accessor-chained/APKBUILD
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/Class-Accessor-Chained/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
 cpandepends="perl-class-accessor"
-cpanmakedepends=""
 depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends perl-module-build"
+makedepends="perl-dev perl-module-build"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RC/RCLAMP/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-class-container/APKBUILD b/main/perl-class-container/APKBUILD
index 4ab4ad540bc813bcfaa6b56411eaffbc7eb4011d..95d1f776b841103625ec24e9e80b033a0c91ab64 100644
--- a/main/perl-class-container/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-class-container/APKBUILD
@@ -10,11 +10,8 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/Class-Container/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
 cpandepends="perl-params-validate"
-cpanmakedepends=""
-cpancheckdepends=""
 depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev perl-module-build $cpanmakedepends"
-checkdepends="$cpancheckdepends"
+makedepends="perl-dev perl-module-build"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$_pkgreal-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-convert-binhex/APKBUILD b/main/perl-convert-binhex/APKBUILD
index 7a977d0a276781c9b52ce79a67eff1cff12a32ca..7da08424da2566dd14d708464c40ff8eff8782fb 100644
--- a/main/perl-convert-binhex/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-convert-binhex/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/Convert-BinHex/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic-1.0 GPL+"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/ST/STEPHEN/Convert-BinHex-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-crypt-des/APKBUILD b/main/perl-crypt-des/APKBUILD
index e08d98a15ae71c39181834f2b02eadcc31df70ae..7a74267c9f3f2aef8dc1c53ae7bbd5f818ce5c35 100644
--- a/main/perl-crypt-des/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-crypt-des/APKBUILD
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="unknown"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-DES/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends=""
-depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/D/DP/DPARIS/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	"
diff --git a/main/perl-crypt-ssleay/APKBUILD b/main/perl-crypt-ssleay/APKBUILD
index 0f839ec13a1c5a013d265b687dece006aee9c207..2ccad8aa53426060eff877109408573cfc266b58 100644
--- a/main/perl-crypt-ssleay/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-crypt-ssleay/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ pkgdesc="OpenSSL Support for LWP"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-SSLeay/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends=""
-depends="$cpandepends perl-path-class perl-try-tiny"
-makedepends="zlib-dev openssl-dev>3 perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
+depends="perl-path-class perl-try-tiny"
+makedepends="zlib-dev openssl-dev>3 perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/N/NA/NANIS/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	libressl.patch
diff --git a/main/perl-device-serialport/APKBUILD b/main/perl-device-serialport/APKBUILD
index 21f8e9b8b5951fa1c8b9a18a09f9bfc1db50c7e0..90d367cc1bff1cdd170b8d4d5f59867e44d43261 100644
--- a/main/perl-device-serialport/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-device-serialport/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
 depends="perl"
 makedepends="perl-dev"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CO/COOK/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-digest-sha1/APKBUILD b/main/perl-digest-sha1/APKBUILD
index d99c304a3d53b5833bf470d74d54ee3e4cefd21e..f46a82f045dacf5c1760768739f58a198500992b 100644
--- a/main/perl-digest-sha1/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-digest-sha1/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
 depends="perl"
 makedepends="perl-dev"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	perl-digest-sha1-check-object.patch
diff --git a/main/perl-encode-locale/APKBUILD b/main/perl-encode-locale/APKBUILD
index 3b66e1864ff0ffb9bbf86621c74780b02bc3b5c1..30c6f030004cadf02e42c2065185c1e6c8b7793c 100644
--- a/main/perl-encode-locale/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-encode-locale/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~gaas"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GA/GAAS/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-ipc-sharelite/APKBUILD b/main/perl-ipc-sharelite/APKBUILD
index 6b9d62e68806d49882f414d7e304ecb0bbdf1c61..126b752f1b5914450e4d8362a04d32f62b0d7a7c 100644
--- a/main/perl-ipc-sharelite/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-ipc-sharelite/APKBUILD
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="Lightweight interface to shared memory"
 url="https://metacpan.org/pod/IPC::ShareLite"
 arch="all"
 license="PerlArtistic GPL"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
-makedepends="$depends_dev perl-dev"
-install=""
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANDYA/IPC-ShareLite-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-lwp-mediatypes/APKBUILD b/main/perl-lwp-mediatypes/APKBUILD
index e8f7bb57313ded5c4877e195f4ccaf9369f59143..82cccca04ebec072176770415aae638c1da00e30 100644
--- a/main/perl-lwp-mediatypes/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-lwp-mediatypes/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
 checkdepends="perl-test-fatal"
-install=
 replaces="perl-libwww"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/O/OA/OALDERS/LWP-MediaTypes-$pkgver.tar.gz"
diff --git a/main/perl-lwp-useragent-determined/APKBUILD b/main/perl-lwp-useragent-determined/APKBUILD
index be3703956bf3b12cfaf2896e53cd0dd88d19e8e5..eb5174c4f867baf8bb86af718d16db663db4181b 100644
--- a/main/perl-lwp-useragent-determined/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-lwp-useragent-determined/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/LWP-UserAgent-Determined/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl perl-libwww"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALEXMV/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-mail-domainkeys/APKBUILD b/main/perl-mail-domainkeys/APKBUILD
index fec18bdce6005886d1bcaefa410fb45839116e7b..273fa4d30ab76b410b6f8263ed68c710217ad21d 100644
--- a/main/perl-mail-domainkeys/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-mail-domainkeys/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~anthonyu/Mail-DomainKeys-1.0/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic-Perl-1.0 GPL+"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AN/ANTHONYU/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-mail-spf/APKBUILD b/main/perl-mail-spf/APKBUILD
index 3166e3555eeeb41afff558de83bca96a74d3ce52..92b686fbee71a77dd40a2d26b2c5a4e05ac661e9 100644
--- a/main/perl-mail-spf/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-mail-spf/APKBUILD
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl perl-error perl-net-dns perl-uri perl-netaddr-ip perl-net-dns-resolver-programmable"
 makedepends="perl-module-build"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JM/JMEHNLE/mail-spf/$_realname-v$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-net-ip/APKBUILD b/main/perl-net-ip/APKBUILD
index 5ebf91391cbe3bcc42a3c7e27e069ce412c58b7e..5f8ce81f7d3bb078919867d4e8b4f472f5b0d08d 100644
--- a/main/perl-net-ip/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-net-ip/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~manu/Net-IP-1.25/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic-Perl-1.0 GPL+"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MANU/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-net-libidn/APKBUILD b/main/perl-net-libidn/APKBUILD
index a98af90bce4bb07df6f1994f44c54573fff7865c..7d431625883ae592d344a022a7aa47ca68042e67 100644
--- a/main/perl-net-libidn/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-net-libidn/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="Artistic-Perl-1.0 GPL+"
 depends="perl"
 makedepends="libidn-dev perl-dev"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/T/TH/THOR/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-net-rblclient/APKBUILD b/main/perl-net-rblclient/APKBUILD
index c749728dd25c69774525201214a4a130e8a3a4a9..1e774d4a45d4580d9cc34c85e0ffeb1ca9d053de 100644
--- a/main/perl-net-rblclient/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-net-rblclient/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/Net-RBLClient/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic GPL-2.0"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/A/AB/ABLUM/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/RBLCLient-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-net-snpp/APKBUILD b/main/perl-net-snpp/APKBUILD
index 881c2b92b92399e07ec0d96a4656564357121e4d..e10aed49774e52d685cd7bbf6ff8b91b036857d2 100644
--- a/main/perl-net-snpp/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-net-snpp/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~tobeya/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TOBEYA/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
 builddir="$srcdir/$_realname-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-netaddr-ip/APKBUILD b/main/perl-netaddr-ip/APKBUILD
index d7b6d91325bf74d2eda2ccb84206a7a7159552b1..7a878cfff8145f56fa62171617df84c9ffc9b35d 100644
--- a/main/perl-netaddr-ip/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-netaddr-ip/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="GPL-2.0 and Artistic"
 depends="perl"
 makedepends="perl-dev"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIKER/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-package-stash-xs/APKBUILD b/main/perl-package-stash-xs/APKBUILD
index d29f9d6e580cab268e3d965cf3c01eb92231a243..8ce3a72b25fec2a309e7b2ae9033599cbabef145 100644
--- a/main/perl-package-stash-xs/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-package-stash-xs/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ pkgdesc="faster and more correct implementation of the Package::Stash API"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Package-Stash-XS/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
 cpanmakedepends="perl-test-requires perl-test-fatal perl-yaml
 	perl-module-runtime perl-sub-name perl-pod-coverage"
-depends="$cpandepends"
 makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
 checkdepends="perl-package-anon perl-test-needs"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
diff --git a/main/perl-parse-recdescent/APKBUILD b/main/perl-parse-recdescent/APKBUILD
index 7a51890bfddd2a00f7ab4d3e3b92415a3531e2ed..5abbe59b9a6c173b6e67cb4fbfbbbdb3cad598d7 100644
--- a/main/perl-parse-recdescent/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-parse-recdescent/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic-Perl-1.0 GPL+"
 depends="perl"
 checkdepends="perl-test-pod perl-test-warn"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JT/JTBRAUN/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$_realname-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-php-serialization/APKBUILD b/main/perl-php-serialization/APKBUILD
index a9d04f4772048256502b189bf2a69a4e799fa097..1facbc9c1468216b5960a6504b6bd8b8a3d51c23 100644
--- a/main/perl-php-serialization/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-php-serialization/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/PHP-Serialization-$pkgver"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
 depends="perl"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BO/BOBTFISH/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-proc-wait3/APKBUILD b/main/perl-proc-wait3/APKBUILD
index 75db5f0184f697c131e35f5d8b0bdbf0accc0156..568b9d419f0fec6efd0d86e9246113b28aca7498 100644
--- a/main/perl-proc-wait3/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-proc-wait3/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="Perl extension for wait3 system call"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Proc-Wait3/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends=""
-depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CT/CTILMES/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-sub-name/APKBUILD b/main/perl-sub-name/APKBUILD
index 76651fc724e5e80852b032e252c9c854227837ab..300e3bf6f5b235efc90063aa5a57add73fae03f8 100644
--- a/main/perl-sub-name/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-sub-name/APKBUILD
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="(re)name a sub"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Name/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends="  perl-devel-checkbin "
-depends="$cpandepends"
+cpanmakedepends="perl-devel-checkbin"
 makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/E/ET/ETHER/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
diff --git a/main/perl-test-pod-coverage/APKBUILD b/main/perl-test-pod-coverage/APKBUILD
index 8c900660f09fea76a7b9d2fbd0de3aa36e52fc0b..d29f0ce05fae2c6e89e60a714c761fa40eaff3f7 100644
--- a/main/perl-test-pod-coverage/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-test-pod-coverage/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ url="https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Pod-Coverage/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="Artistic GPL"
 depends="perl perl-pod-coverage perl-test-pod perl-devel-symdump"
-install=
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/N/NE/NEILB/Test-Pod-Coverage-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
 builddir="$srcdir/$_realname-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-text-soundex/APKBUILD b/main/perl-text-soundex/APKBUILD
index 7a1d0fd2dfc215db9f1b0623184436fce512175a..efccc867a3fe1754ec5e07c5c595e48533c3b2c8 100644
--- a/main/perl-text-soundex/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-text-soundex/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="Implementation of the soundex algorithm"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Soundex/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends="   "
-depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/perl-unix-syslog/APKBUILD b/main/perl-unix-syslog/APKBUILD
index 8eb34ec7542d42bd0670d127a20080dc5c7feaba..e954d7ed80c4402cbd8c60808c26978cbad8333f 100644
--- a/main/perl-unix-syslog/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-unix-syslog/APKBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="Artistic-2.0"
 depends="perl"
 makedepends="perl-dev"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MH/MHARNISCH/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 builddir="$srcdir/$_realname-$pkgver"
diff --git a/main/perl-want/APKBUILD b/main/perl-want/APKBUILD
index 44dbb28fc208df688290d5d2a91ace1b4a0aa917..eef7bcdfbdaa94b51d4001fead791767c6af2cc5 100644
--- a/main/perl-want/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/perl-want/APKBUILD
@@ -9,10 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="unknown"
 url="https://metacpan.org/release/Want/"
 arch="all"
 license="GPL PerlArtistic"
-cpandepends=""
-cpanmakedepends="   "
-depends="$cpandepends"
-makedepends="perl-dev $cpanmakedepends"
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RO/ROBIN/$_pkgreal-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 
diff --git a/main/sc/APKBUILD b/main/sc/APKBUILD
index 4a6b2de30d922436e3b28c66ecfbcb3bc590b029..53ceb75e6dd6a06d584aa989fea162c1d859545a 100644
--- a/main/sc/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/sc/APKBUILD
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ pkgdesc="Speadsheet Calculator"
 url="https://github.com/erithmetic/sc"
 arch="all"
 license="Public-Domain"
-depends=""
-depends_dev=""
 makedepends="ncurses-dev byacc"
-install=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/financial/spreadsheet/sc-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	sc_7.16-2.patch"
diff --git a/main/ssmtp/APKBUILD b/main/ssmtp/APKBUILD
index d9a40cecadcf1ab50dd75784d35649dbe768012d..d2a10b5ea52520ba0f9c29d4dfb330e0005a5073 100644
--- a/main/ssmtp/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/ssmtp/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 arch="all"
 url="https://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ssmtp"
 license="GPL-2.0"
-depends=
 makedepends="openssl-dev>3 autoconf"
 options="!check"
 source="https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/ssmtp_$pkgver.orig.tar.bz2
diff --git a/main/swish-e/APKBUILD b/main/swish-e/APKBUILD
index 563353c7e64bc9a768232c96d431d4658d57693e..902f1881a2a0d664c0e27fad53bd77fe0a2c6ccb 100644
--- a/main/swish-e/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/swish-e/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="all"
 license="GPL"
 depends="perl-html-parser perl-html-tagset perl-libwww"
 makedepends="perl-dev"
-install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc"
 #source="http://www.swish-e.org/distribution/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
 source="https://distfiles.macports.org/swish-e/swish-e-$pkgver.tar.gz
diff --git a/main/zfs-lts/APKBUILD b/main/zfs-lts/APKBUILD
index 14a7b0b5bb7244e3928da83915f60d4084522ea8..b2272bb0e0a7956aa4eb2de0af3d291fed5367fe 100644
--- a/main/zfs-lts/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/zfs-lts/APKBUILD
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ _krel=0
 _kpkgver="$_kver-r$_krel"
 
 # for custom kernels set $FLAVOR
-_extra_flavors=
 case $CARCH in
 	x86|x86_64|aarch64) _extra_flavors="virt";;
 esac
diff --git a/main/zfs-rpi/APKBUILD b/main/zfs-rpi/APKBUILD
index 75a82994860169feb1d50fbe911a126f7b6583dc..2ba9d3db0581e2a5cae5f765a14a79a3df0a5e09 100644
--- a/main/zfs-rpi/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/zfs-rpi/APKBUILD
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ _krel=0
 _kpkgver="$_kver-r$_krel"
 
 # for custom kernels set $FLAVOR
-_extra_flavors=
 case $CARCH in
 	armhf|armv7) _extra_flavors="rpi2";;
 	aarch64) _extra_flavors="rpi4";;
diff --git a/main/zip/APKBUILD b/main/zip/APKBUILD
index 1b76f9d4008ec5d59de0f2532518682709ab9833..f5320aec6cbd4d88257af747f66134d079f882bd 100644
--- a/main/zip/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/zip/APKBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ arch="all"
 options="!check"  # No test suite.
 license="Info-ZIP"
 depends="unzip" #unzip is needed for `zip -T`
-makedepends=""
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/infozip/zip$_pkgver.tar.gz
 	10-zip-3.0-build.patch