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+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/misc/pkgsel/minimal+xfree.in
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2003 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public
+# License can be found at Documentation/COPYING.
+# 
+# Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please
+# have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM
+# file for details.
+# 
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+#
+# TITLE: A base selection for benchmarking purposes
+
+pkgfilter sed '
+
+# Add strictly required packages
+
+/ 00-dirtree /                  { p; d; };
+/ bind /                        { p; d; };
+/ devfsd /                      { p; d; };
+/ dhcp /                        { p; d; };
+/ dialog /                      { p; d; };
+/ autoconf /                    { p; d; };
+/ automake /                    { p; d; };
+/ bash /                        { p; d; };
+/ binutils /                    { p; d; };
+/ bison /                       { p; d; };
+/ bzip2 /                       { p; d; };
+/ cracklib/                     { p; d; };
+/ cron /                        { p; d; };
+/ curl /                        { p; d; };
+/ diffutils /                   { p; d; };
+/ e2fsprogs /                   { p; d; };
+/ ed /                          { p; d; };
+/ expat /			{ p; d; };
+/ file /                        { p; d; };
+/ coreutils /                   { p; d; };
+/ findutils /                   { p; d; };
+/ flex /                        { p; d; };
+/ gawk /                        { p; d; };
+/ gcc3 /                        { p; d; };
+/ gettext /                     { p; d; };
+/ glibc23 /                     { p; d; };
+/ grep /                        { p; d; };
+/ groff /                       { p; d; };
+/ gzip /                        { p; d; };
+/ iproute2 /                    { p; d; };
+/ kbd /                         { p; d; };
+/ less /                        { p; d; };
+/ libtool /                     { p; d; };
+/ libjpeg /                     { p; d; };
+/ libpng /                      { p; d; };
+/ libtiff /                     { p; d; };
+/ libungif /                    { p; d; };
+/ linux.* /                     { p; d; };
+/ linux.*-header /              { p; d; };
+/ m4 /                          { p; d; };
+/ make /                        { p; d; };
+/ man /                         { p; d; };
+/ mine /                        { p; d; };
+/ mktemp /                      { p; d; };
+/ modutils /                    { p; d; };
+/ ncompress /                   { p; d; };
+/ ncurses /                     { p; d; };
+/ netkit-base /                 { p; d; };
+/ net-tools/                    { p; d; };
+/ nfs-utils /                   { p; d; };
+/ netkit-telnet/                { p; d; };
+/ openssh /                     { p; d; };
+/ openssl /                     { p; d; };
+/ pam /                         { p; d; };
+/ patch /                       { p; d; };
+/ perl5 /                       { p; d; };
+/ procinfo /                    { p; d; };
+/ procps /                      { p; d; };
+/ psmisc /                      { p; d; };
+/ pciutils/                     { p; d; };
+/ screen /                      { p; d; };
+/ sed /                         { p; d; };
+/ shadow /                      { p; d; };
+/ sysfiles /                    { p; d; };
+/ sysklogd /                    { p; d; };
+/ sysvinit /                    { p; d; };
+/ tar /                         { p; d; };
+/ texinfo /                     { p; d; };
+/ time /                        { p; d; };
+/ unzip /                       { p; d; };
+/ util-linux /                  { p; d; };
+/ vim /                         { p; d; };
+/ vlock /                       { p; d; };
+/ wget /                        { p; d; };
+/ xfree86 /                     { p; d; };
+/ zip /                         { p; d; };
+/ zlib /                        { p; d; };
+/ zsh/                          { p; d; };
+
+# Some architecture-specifc-packages with missing deps
+/ macosd /                      { s/^X /O / ; p; d; };
+
+# other stray junk
+/ intel-rng /			{ s/^X /O / ; p; d; };
+/ microcode_ctl /		{ s/^X /O / ; p; d; };
+/ apmd /			{ s/^X /O / ; p; d; };
+
+# Add architecture-specific-packages
+/ alpha /                       { p; d; };
+/ mips /                        { p; d; };
+/ powerpc /                     { p; d; };
+/ sparc /                       { p; d; };
+/ x86 /                         { p; d; };
+
+# Disabling the rest of packages
+/.*/        { s/^X /O / ; p; d; };'
+