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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
Mateusz Kowalczyk
7a45996233 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
Vladimír Čunát
1a33b4b654 Fixing stardict broken by my mistake.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=34549
2012-06-18 15:37:35 +00:00
Vladimír Čunát
1a856c200d Updated transmission to 2.52.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=34545
2012-06-18 15:18:45 +00:00
Joachim Schiele
0de49e8c04 StarDict is a Cross-Platform and international dictionary Software. Now it is available on NixOS. See https://nixos.org/wiki/Solve_GConf_errors_when_running_GNOME_applications if you want to get it running.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=34531
2012-06-17 18:41:00 +00:00