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-# a collection of packages that speed up installation as they are dependencies
-# of packages we can't install during bootstraping (rabbitmq-server, 
-# mysql-server, libvirt-bin)
-#
-# NOTE: only add packages to this file that aren't needed directly
-mysql-common
-mysql-client-5.1
-erlang-base
-erlang-ssl 
-erlang-nox
-erlang-inets
-erlang-mnesia
-libhtml-template-perl
-gettext-base
-libavahi-client3
-libxml2-utils
-libpciaccess0
-libparted0debian1