This list was generated on Sun Aug 29 18:41:38 BST 2004 for i386
It contains a list of essential packages (which are also build-essential).

base-files
base-passwd
bash
bsdutils
coreutils
debianutils
diff
dpkg
e2fsprogs
findutils
grep
gzip
hostname
login
mount
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
perl-base
sed
sysvinit
tar
util-linux