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  A/OS contains the following packages. These (or equivalents) are always
  assumed to be present, as they constitute a minimally-viable Linux system.

    USERSPACE
      -sbase: Provides standard, portable Unix utilities. Suckless. MIT license.
      -ubase: Provides unportable Linux utilities. Suckless. MIT license. 
      -dash:  Provides a standard Unix Bourne shell. Debian. GPL license. 
      -gnu-diffults: Standard Unix comparison tools. GNU. GPL license. 
      -gavin-bc: Portable, compliant bc/dc. Independent. BSD license.
      -gnu-make: Make implementation. GNU. GPL license.
      -gnu-patch: Patch implementation. GNU. GPL license.
      -kiss: POSIX shell package manager. KISS. MIT license. 
      -libarchive: Compression suite. fBSD. BSD license.
      -mandoc: Implementation of man. oBSD. BSD license.
      -otawk: AWK interpreter. Independent. 
      -qm4: Quasar M4 macro processor. Independent. Public domain.
      -sed-i: Wrapper to provide in-place editing for seds that lack -i.
      -shinit: Shell-based init system. 
      -tcc: Tiny C Compiler. Also provides system as, ar, ld, etc.
      
