diff --git a/disabled-packages/build-essential/build.sh b/disabled-packages/build-essential/build.sh
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--- a/disabled-packages/build-essential/build.sh
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-# Gets uninstalled automatically due to no file in package?
-TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html
-TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Collection of packages to build Linux software"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.1
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="clang, gawk, make, sed"
-TERMUX_PKG_METAPACKAGE=yes
-TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=yes
diff --git a/packages/build-essential/build.sh b/packages/build-essential/build.sh
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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/termux/termux-packages
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A metapackage that installs essential development tools"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="Public Domain"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="Leonid Plyushch <leonid.plyushch@gmail.com> @xeffyr"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.0
+TERMUX_PKG_METAPACKAGE=yes
+TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=yes
+
+#
+# Common utilities for various build systems:
+#
+#   autoconf, automake, bison, clang, cmake, flex, gperf, libtool, m4, make, ninja, pkg-config
+#
+# These packages replace busybox's applets:
+#
+#   bc, bzip2, coreutils, diffutils, ed, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, lzip, lzop, patch, procps, psmisc, sed, tar, xz-utils
+#
+
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="autoconf, automake, bison, clang, cmake, flex, gperf, libtool, m4, make, ninja, pkg-config, bc, bzip2, coreutils, diffutils, ed, findutils, gawk, grep, gzip, lzip, lzop, patch, procps, psmisc, sed, tar, xz-utils"
+
+# Other packages that may be interesting.
+TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="git, golang, nodejs, patchelf, proot, python-dev, python2-dev, ruby-dev, rust, subversion"
+
+termux_step_post_massage() {
+	cd "$TERMUX_PKG_MASSAGEDIR"
+	rm -rf data
+}