Packages Explanation

Autoconf

This package contains programs for producing shell scripts that can automatically configure source code from a developer's template. It is often needed to rebuild a package after updates to the build procedures.Depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo

Automake

This package contains programs for generating Make files from a template. It is often needed to rebuild a package after updates to the build procedures.Depends on: Autoconf, Bash, Coreutils, Gettext, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo

Bash

This package provides a Bourne Shell interface to the system. It was chosen over other shell packages because of its common usage and extensive capabilities beyond basic shell functions.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses,Patch, Readline, Sed, and Texinfo

Binutils

This package contains a linker, an assembler, and other tools for handling object files. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed,Texinfo and Zlib

Bison

This package contains the GNU version of yacc (Yet Another Compiler Compiler) needed to build several other programs.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, and Sed

Bzip2

This package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch

Coreutils

This package contains a number of essential programs for viewing and manipulating files and directories. These programs are needed for command line file management, and are necessary for the installation procedures of every package.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep, Make, Patch, Perl, Sed,and Texinfo

DejaGNU

This package contains a framework for testing other programs. It is only installed in the temporary toolchain.Depends on: Bash, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Grep, Make, and Sed

Diffutils

This package contains programs that show the differences between files or directories. These programs can be used to create patches, and are also used in many packages' build procedures.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Expect

This package contains a program for carrying out scripted dialogues with other interactive programs. It is commonly used for testing other packages. It is only installed in the temporary toolchain.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Tcl

E2fsprogs

This package contains the utilities for handling the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems. These are the most common and thoroughly tested file systems that Linux supports.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Make, Sed,Texinfo, and Util-linux

File

This package contains a utility for determining the type of a given file or files. A few packages need it to build.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Zlib

Findutils

This package contains programs to find files in a file system. It is used in many packages' build scripts.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Flex

This package contains a utility for generating programs that recognize patterns in text. It is the GNU version of the lex (lexical analyzer) program.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Patch, Sed, andTexinfo

Gawk

This package contains programs for manipulating text files. It is the GNU version of awk (Aho-Weinberg- Kernighan). It is used in many other packages' build scripts.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed and, Texinfo

Gcc

This package is the Gnu Compiler Collection. It contains the C and C++ compilers as well as several others.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, GMP, Grep,M4, Make, MPC, MPFR, Patch, Perl, Sed, Tar, and Texinfo

GDBM

This package contains the GNU Database Manager library.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Grep, Make, and Sed

Gettext

This package contains utilities and libraries for internationalization and localization of numerous packages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Glibc

This package contains the main C library. Linux programs would not run without it.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Grep, Gzip, Linux APIHeaders, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo

GMP

This package contains math libraries that provide useful functions for arbitrary precision arithmetic. It is required to build Gcc.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed and Texinfo

Grep

This package contains programs for searching through files. These programs are used by most packages' build scripts.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo

Groff

This package contains programs for processing and formatting text. One important function of these programs is to format man pages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo

GRUB

This package is the Grand Unified Boot Loader. It is one of several boot loaders available, but is the most flexible.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, Texinfo, and Xz

Gzip

This package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Iana-etc

This package provides data for network services and protocols. It is needed to enable proper networking capabilities.Depends on: Coreutils, Gawk, and Make

Inetutils

This package contains programs for basic network administration.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, Texinfo, and Zlib

IProute2

This package contains programs for basic and advanced IPv4 and IPv6 networking. It was chosen over the other common network tools package (net-tools) for its IPv6 capabilities.Depends on: Bash, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Linux API Headers

Kbd

This package contains key-table files, keyboard utilities for non-US keyboards, and a number of console fonts.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, Patch, and Sed

Kmod

This package contains programs needed to administer Linux kernel modules.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Make, Sed, Xz-Utils,Zlib

Less

This package contains a very nice text file viewer that allows scrolling up or down when viewing a file. It is also used by Man-DB for viewing manpages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed

Libtool

This package contains the GNU generic library support script. It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable interface. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Linux Kernel

This package is the Operating System. It is the Linux in the GNU/Linux environment.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gzip, Kmod, Make,Ncurses, Perl, and Sed

M4

This package contains a general text macro processor useful as a build tool for other programs.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Make

This package contains a program for directing the building of packages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Man-DB

This package contains programs for finding and viewing man pages. It was chosen instead of the man package due to superior internationalization capabilities. It supplies the man program.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Flex, GCC, GDBM, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Gzip,Less, Libpipeline, Make, Sed, and Xz

Man-pages

This package contains the actual contents of the basic Linux man pages.Depends on: Bash, Coreutils, and Make

MPC

This package contains functions for the arithmetic of complex numbers. It is required by Gcc.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, MPFR, Sedand Texinfo

MPFR

This package contains functions for multiple precision arithmetic. It is required by Gcc.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, GMP, Make, Sed andTexinfo

Ncurses

This package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens. It is often used to provide cursor control for a menuing system. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Patch, and Sed

Patch

This package contains a program for modifying or creating files by applying a patch file typically created by the diff program.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed

Perl

This package is an interpreter for the runtime language PERL. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, GDBM, Glibc, Grep, Groff, Make, Sed, andZlib

Procps

This package contains programs for monitoring processes. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Ncurses

Psmisc

This package contains programs for displaying information about running processes. These programs are useful for system administration.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed

Readline

This package is a set of libraries that offers command-line editing and history capabilities. It is used by Bash.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo

Sed

This package allows editing of text without opening it in a text editor.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Shadow

This package contains programs for handling passwords in a secure way.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make,and Sed

Sysklogd

This package contains programs for logging system messages, such as those given by the kernel or daemon processes when unusual events occur.Depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Patch

Sysvinit

This package provides the init program, which is the parent of all other processes on the Linux system.Depends on: Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed

Tar

This package provides archiving and extraction capabilities of virtually all packages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Inetutils, Make, Sed, and Texinfo

Tcl

This package contains the Tool Command Language used in many test suites in packages. Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed

Texinfo

This package contains programs for reading, writing, and converting info pages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Patch, and Sed

Udev

This package contains programs for dynamic creation of device nodes. It is an alternative to creating thousands of static devices in the /dev directory.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Kmod, Make, and Sed

Util-linux

This package contains miscellaneous utility programs. Among them are utilities for handling file systems, consoles, partitions, and messages.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make,Ncurses, Sed, and Zlib

Vim

This package contains an editor. It was chosen because of its compatibility with the classic vi editor and its huge number of powerful capabilities. An editor is a very personal choice for many users and any other editor could be substituted if desired.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed

XZ Utils

This package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files. It provides the highest compression generally available and is useful for decompressing packages XZ or LZMA format.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, and Make.

Zlib

This package contains compression and decompression routines used by some programs.Depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed