This list was generated on Sun Mar 14 21:48:29 UTC 2010 for amd64
It contains a list of essential packages (which are also build-essential).

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