diff --git a/kiss b/kiss
index 26f96df..feafe6d 100755
--- a/kiss
+++ b/kiss
@@ -448,6 +448,9 @@ pkg_fixdeps() {
 
     # Display a diff of the new dependencies against the old ones. 
     diff "$dep_file" depends 2>/dev/null ||:
+
+    # Remove the depends file if it is empty.
+    [ -s depends ] || rm -f depends
 }
 
 pkg_manifest() (
@@ -1310,7 +1313,7 @@ args() {
         l|list)    pkg_list "$@" ;;
         u|update)  pkg_updates ;;
         s|search)  for pkg; do pkg_find "$pkg" all; done ;;
-        v|version) log kiss 1.7.6 ;;
+        v|version) log kiss 1.7.7 ;;
 
         h|help|-h|--help|'')
             log 'kiss [a|b|c|i|l|r|s|u|v] [pkg] [pkg] [pkg]'