diff --git a/scripts/setup-termux.sh b/scripts/setup-termux.sh
index 1c61a84e8..f2d84d659 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-termux.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-termux.sh
@@ -1,52 +1,40 @@
 #!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
 
-# Tier 1 packages are required by the core build scripts in scripts/build/.
-# Tier 2 packages are required to build many packages.
-# Some packages are installed by default and aren't labeled here.
-PACKAGES="autoconf"
+# Tier 1: requirements for the core build scripts in scripts/build/.
+PACKAGES="binutils-gold"	# Part of binutils which is dependency of clang.
+PACKAGES+=" clang"			# Required to build C/C++ packages.
+PACKAGES+=" file"			# Used in termux_step_massage().
+PACKAGES+=" lzip"			# Used by tar to extract *.tar.lz source archives.
+PACKAGES+=" patch"			# Used for applying patches on source code.
+PACKAGES+=" python"			# Used buildorder.py core script.
+PACKAGES+=" termux-elf-cleaner"	# We can't build termux-elf-cleaner on android-5
+								# without custom elf.h
+PACKAGES+=" unzip"			# Used to extract *.zip source archives.
+
+# Tier 2: requirements for building many other packages.
+PACKAGES+=" autoconf"
 PACKAGES+=" automake"
 PACKAGES+=" bc"
-PACKAGES+=" binutils-gold"
 PACKAGES+=" bison"
 PACKAGES+=" bsdtar"
-PACKAGES+=" bzip2"
-PACKAGES+=" clang"         # Tier 1: required to build termux-elf-cleaner, which
-                           # is built first by the core scripts.
 PACKAGES+=" cmake"
-PACKAGES+=" coreutils"
-PACKAGES+=" curl"
-PACKAGES+=" diffutils"
 PACKAGES+=" ed"
-PACKAGES+=" file"          # Tier 1: required by a core script
-PACKAGES+=" findutils"
 PACKAGES+=" flex"
-PACKAGES+=" gawk"
 PACKAGES+=" gettext"
 PACKAGES+=" git"
 PACKAGES+=" golang"
 PACKAGES+=" gperf"
-PACKAGES+=" grep"
-PACKAGES+=" gzip"
 PACKAGES+=" libtool"
-PACKAGES+=" lzip"
-PACKAGES+=" lzop"
 PACKAGES+=" m4"
-PACKAGES+=" make"          # Tier 2: used for all Makefile projects and to build itself
-PACKAGES+=" ninja"         # Tier 2: used by default to build all CMake projects
-PACKAGES+=" patch"
+PACKAGES+=" make"			# Used for all Makefile projects and to build itself.
+PACKAGES+=" ninja"			# Used by default to build all CMake projects.
 PACKAGES+=" perl"
-PACKAGES+=" pkg-config"    # Tier 2: used to build many packages
+PACKAGES+=" pkg-config"
 PACKAGES+=" protobuf"
-PACKAGES+=" python"        # Tier 1: required for buildorder.py core script
 PACKAGES+=" python2"
 PACKAGES+=" rust"
-PACKAGES+=" sed"
-PACKAGES+=" tar"
-PACKAGES+=" termux-elf-cleaner"
 PACKAGES+=" texinfo"
-PACKAGES+=" unzip"
 PACKAGES+=" valac"
-PACKAGES+=" xz-utils"
 
 apt update
 apt dist-upgrade -y