On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 21:56:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That said if you want to avoid it, what are the base packages where > it must absolutely be avoided? > > All essential + their (transitive) dependencies? > Seems like it's Priority: required (and dependencies) + binutils (for the fakechroot variant). debootstrap uses in_target dpkg for the rest, from a quick look at the sid script. Cheers, Julien