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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bjørn Forsman
c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
1da6a7d4a9 Remove illegal meta.src attributes 2014-06-05 13:04:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
b1e93d013c * Get rid of those annoying "not an attrSet" trace messages.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=27141
2011-05-04 12:43:31 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
907bb1aac6 * ltrace: updated to 0.5.3.
* libdbi / libdbi-drivers: updated to 0.8.3, and make it compile with
  SQLite.
* qemu-image: fix the URL.
* gdmap: make it build again (requires an older GTK+).
* rlwrap: updated to 0.37.
* smbfs-fuse -> fusesmb to match the upstream name.
* x11vnc: updated to 0.9.10.
* clearlyU: fix the URL.
* Various packages: follow the coding conventions.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=22814
2010-07-29 18:55:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
ba498d4a43 * composedArgsAndFun -> makeOverridable for consistency.
* Rename a few single-version packages to "default.nix".

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=22803
2010-07-29 08:21:21 +00:00