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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>Acl</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains utilities to administer Access
+ Control Lists, which are used to define more fine-grained
+ discretionary access rights for files and directories.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Attr</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains programs for administering
+ extended attributes on filesystem objects.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Autoconf</para>
<para>This package contains programs for producing shell scripts that
@@ -92,6 +109,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>D-Bus</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains programs to implement a message bus system,
+ which a simple way for applications to talk to one another.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>DejaGNU</para>
<para>This package contains a framework for testing other programs.
@@ -115,6 +140,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Expat</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains programs for parsing XML. It is
+ required for systemd.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Expect</para>
<para>This package contains a program for carrying out scripted
@@ -191,6 +224,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Gperf</para>
+
+ <para>This package a program that generates a perfect hash function
+ from a key set. It is required for systemd.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Grep</para>
<para>This package contains programs for searching through files. These
@@ -235,6 +276,13 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Intltool</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains tools for extracting translatable
+ strings from source files.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>IProute2</para>
<para>This package contains programs for basic and advanced IPv4 and
@@ -265,6 +313,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Libcap</para>
+
+ <para>This package implements the user-space interfaces to
+ the POSIX 1003.1e capabilities available in Linux kernels.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Libpipeline</para>
<para>The Libpipeline package contains a library for manipulating
@@ -412,6 +468,16 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Systemd</para>
+
+ <para>This package provides and <application>init</application> program
+ and several additional boot and system control capabilites as an
+ alternative to Sysvinit. It is used by many commercial distributions.
+ In LFS it is installed side-by-side with Sysvinit to provide the user with
+ alternative boot systems for comparison.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Sysvinit</para>
<para>This package provides the <application>init</application>
@@ -468,6 +534,12 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>XML::Parser</para>
+
+ <para>This package is a Perl module that interfaces with Expat.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>XZ Utils</para>
<para>This package contains programs for compressing and decompressing