diff --git a/chapter07/introduction.xml b/chapter07/introduction.xml
index 1d53f6987..2e57af238 100644
--- a/chapter07/introduction.xml
+++ b/chapter07/introduction.xml
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
   <title>Introduction</title>
 
   <para>This chapter shows how to build the last missing bits of the temporary
-  system: first, the tools needed by the build machinery of various packages,
-  then three packages needed to run tests.  Now that all circular dependencies
+  system: the tools needed by the build machinery of various packages.
+  Now that all circular dependencies
   have been resolved, we can use a <quote>chroot</quote> environment,
   completely isolated the host operating system used for the build, except
   for the running kernel.</para>