diff --git a/scripts/projects.py b/scripts/projects.py
index 1c1cf61e..0d07bdd1 100644
--- a/scripts/projects.py
+++ b/scripts/projects.py
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ class Projects(object):
             default=False, help='Find dependencies recursively')
         parser.add_argument('--dont-expand-version-macros', action='store_true',
             default=False, help='Don\'t expand VERSION and REVISION macros')
+        parser.add_argument('--ignore', nargs='?', default='', help='Packages that '
+            'should be ignored together with their dependencies')
         args = parser.parse_args(args_)
         version_pattern=re.compile("[0-9-.]*")
         if args.subsections is None:
@@ -340,6 +342,8 @@ class Projects(object):
         else:
             subsecs = args.subsections.split(',')
         self.debug('flavour = ', args.flavour, ', subsecs = ', ' '.join(subsecs))
+        ignore = args.ignore.split(',')
+        self.debug("ignore = ", ignore)
 
         r = []
         flavours = args.flavour.split(',')
@@ -350,7 +354,7 @@ class Projects(object):
                 modules = args.module.copy()
                 while len(modules):
                     m = modules.pop(0)
-                    if m in visited:
+                    if m in visited or m in ignore:
                         continue
                     visited.add(m)
                     value = self.get_value(m, section, flavour)
@@ -363,6 +367,8 @@ class Projects(object):
                             dep = dep[:1]
                         dep = list(map(str.strip, dep))
                         dep_name = re.sub('-dev$|-devel$|-run$', '', dep[0])
+                        if dep_name in ignore or dep[0] in ignore:
+                            continue
                         if args.no_subpackages:
                             dep[0] = dep_name
                         for i, item in enumerate(dep):
@@ -389,6 +395,7 @@ class Projects(object):
                                     raise Exception("Unknown version specifier in " + spec)
                         cleaned_dep = ' '.join(dep)
                         if not cleaned_dep in r:
+                            self.debug("appending", cleaned_dep)
                             r.append(cleaned_dep)
         return args.delimiter.join(r)