From 2b60a932a968ab5c05311feb876a9748f49f3b3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@mister-muffin.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:01:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] don't install essential packages in run_install()

---
 mmdebstrap | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mmdebstrap b/mmdebstrap
index f8c4de1..682dc69 100755
--- a/mmdebstrap
+++ b/mmdebstrap
@@ -2722,13 +2722,18 @@ sub run_install() {
         any { $_ eq $options->{variant} }
         ('required', 'important', 'standard', 'buildd')
     ) {
+        # Many of the priority:required packages are also essential:yes. We
+        # make sure not to select those here to avoid useless "xxx is already
+        # the newest version" messages.
         my $priority;
         if (any { $_ eq $options->{variant} } ('required', 'buildd')) {
-            $priority = '?priority(required)';
+            $priority = '?and(?priority(required),?not(?essential))';
         } elsif ($options->{variant} eq 'important') {
-            $priority = '?or(?priority(required),?priority(important))';
+            $priority = '?and(?or(?priority(required),?priority(important)),'
+              . '?not(?essential))';
         } elsif ($options->{variant} eq 'standard') {
-            $priority = '?or(~prequired,~pimportant,~pstandard)';
+            $priority = '?and(?or(~prequired,~pimportant,~pstandard),'
+              . '?not(?essential))';
         }
         $pkgs_to_install{
             "?narrow("