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@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ in the `srcpkgs` directory.
 
 The `bootstrap` packages are a set of packages required to build any available source package in a container. There are two methods to install the `bootstrap`:
 
- - `bootstrap`: all bootstrap packages will be built from scratch.
+ - `bootstrap`: all bootstrap packages will be built from scratch; additional utilities are required in the
+host system to allow building the `base-chroot` package: binutils, gcc, perl, texinfo, etc.
+
  - `binary-bootstrap`: the bootstrap binary packages are downloaded via XBPS repositories.
 
 If you don't want to waste your time building everything from scratch probably it's better to use `binary-bootstrap`.