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     <listitem>
+      <para>ACL</para>
+      <para>The ACL package allows usage and setting of POSIX Access Control
+      Lists. It can be used by several other packages in CLFS, such as Coreutils
+      and Systemd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Attr</para>
+      <para>Attr allows setting and viewing extended attributes of filesystem
+      objects. It is required by Systemd..</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>Autoconf</para>
       <para>The Autoconf package contains programs for producing shell scripts
@@ -66 +79 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>CLFS-Bootscripts</para>
+      <para>CLFS-Boot-scripts</para>
       <para>This package contains a number of scripts that run at boottime,
       performing essential tasks such as mounting/checking filesystems and
@@ -74 +87 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>Check</para>
-      <para>This package contains a test harness for other programs.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>CLooG-ISL</para>
+      <para>This package contains a test harness for other programs. It is
+      used for some packages' testsuites.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>CLooG</para>
       <para>This package is used by GCC.</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -86 +100 @@
       <para>This package contains many basic command-line file-management
       tools, required for installation of every package in CLFS.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>D-Bus</para>
+      <para>D-Bus is a message bus system, which allows applications to
+      communicate to each other. It is required by Systemd.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -109 +129 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>EGLIBC</para>
+      <para>Glibc</para>
       <para>Any dynamically-linked C program (which is nearly everything
       in CLFS) needs a C library to compile and run.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Eudev</para>
+      <para>This is a package that allows for dynamic creation of device nodes.
+      It is a fork of Udev, which is now part of Systemd. It is still
+      used for the "Boot" method in the temp-system, as Systemd is not needed
+      there.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -158 +186 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>GDBM</para>
+      <para>This package contains the GNU Database Manager library. It is used
+      by one other CLFS package, Man-DB.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>Gettext</para>
       <para>A tool that allows programmers to easily implement i18n
@@ -167 +201 @@
       <para>GMP</para>
       <para>This package is required by GCC.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Gperf</para>
+      <para>This package is required by Systemd.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -195 +234 @@
 
     <listitem>
+      <para>Intltool</para>
+      <para>This package is required by Systemd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>IProute2</para>
       <para>This package contains programs for administering network interfaces.</para>
@@ -228 +272 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Libee</para>
-      <para>This package contains an event expression library. It is needed by
-      Rsyslog.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>Libestr</para>
-      <para>This package contains a library for string essentials. It is needed
-      by Rsyslog.</para>
+      <para>Libcap</para>
+      <para>This package is required by Systemd.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Libpipeline</para>
+      <para>The Libpipeline package contains a library for manipulating
+      pipelines of subprocesses in a flexible and convenient way. It is
+      required by the Man-DB package.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -268 +312 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Man</para>
-      <para>Used for viewing manpages</para>
+      <para>Man-DB</para>
+      <para>This package contains programs for finding and viewing man pages,
+      and has superior internationalization capabilities compared to the
+      <application>man</application> package.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -309 +355 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Procps</para>
+      <para>Procps-ng</para>
       <para>Provides a number of small, useful utilities that give information
       about the <filename class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem.</para>
@@ -329 +375 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Rsyslog</para>
-      <para>Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd that supports
-      multiple backends with very little dependencies. It provides a program
-      that logs various system events into files in
-      <filename class="directory">/var/log</filename>.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
       <para>Sed</para>
       <para>This package contains a stream editor. It is used in the
@@ -349 +387 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>Sysvinit</para>
-      <para>Sysvinit is the init daemon that the clfs-bootscripts were written
-      to work with.</para>
+      <para>Systemd</para>
+      <para>Systemd provides the init daemon for the system, as well as Udev,
+      which dynamically creates device nodes.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -370 +408 @@
       converting info pages. It is used in the installation procedures
       of many CLFS packages.</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para>Eudev</para>
-      <para>The Eudev package contains programs for dynamic creation of device
-      nodes.</para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -393 +425 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para>XZ-Utils</para>
+      <para>XML::Parser</para>
+      <para>This Perl module is required by Intltool.</para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>XZ Utils</para>
       <para>Useful for compressing files to reduce size. Also needed to
       uncompress tarballs for many CLFS packages</para>