There is a new pull request by xtraeme against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/xtraeme/void-packages base-chroot-v2 https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17969 xbps-src: base-chroot-v2 (reduce artifacts/deps) This patchset contains multiple changes to xbps-src and its required package "base-chroot" for building packages via chroot. - moved xbps.d(5) conf files to `etc/xbps.d`. - renamed xbps.d(5) repository files to `etc/xbps.d/repos-{local,remote}*`. - do not set `--repository` to any xbps command that supports it, xbps-src now simply populates `rootdir/etc/xbps.d` with correct settings (taking care of CHROOT_READY/IN_CHROOT). - Unless `-C` is set (to preserve builddir/destdir/autodeps), when entering to the chroot (if CHROOT_READY is set), xbps-src will clean up the masterdir and then perform a system update to always use a constant set of packages for that exact date. - Improved some normal/error msgs. - Includes support for `xbps>=0.58`. - common/hooks: switch to bsdtar. - base-chroot: - base-chroot-musl is gone, now unified for glibc/musl. - deps removed: gettext, mpfr, readline, texinfo, which, xz. - deps changed: tar -> bsdtar. Effectively this reduces dependencies in `base-chroot`, makes it unified for musl and glibc, switches xbps-src to use `bsdtar` rather than GNU `tar` and `xz`, gets rid of useless host dependencies like GNU gettext, texinfo, etc. I've been testing these changes for 1 month or so already, I was able to build from scratch `base-system` for both native and multiple targets, i.e `./xbps-src -a target -Nt pkg base-system` A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17969.patch is attached