This list was generated on Sat Nov 13 16:03:17 CET 2010 for i386
It contains a list of essential packages (which are also build-essential).

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