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3.7 Base system
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The ‘base system’ is a minimum subset of the Debian system that is
installed before everything else on a new system.  Only very few
packages are allowed to form part of the base system, in order to keep
the required disk usage very small.

The base system consists of all those packages with priority ‘required’
or ‘important’.  Many of them will be tagged ‘essential’ (see below).