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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
c556a6ea46 * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless
function, so obsolete it.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=31644
2012-01-18 20:16:00 +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
Eelco Dolstra
7f5b839524 * Removed selectVersion. There's no good reason to write
`selectVersion ./foo "bar"' instead of `import ./foo/bar.nix'.
* Replaced `with args' with formal function arguments in several
  packages.
* Renamed several files to `default.nix'.  As a general rule, version
  numbers should only be included in the filename when there is a
  reason to keep multiple versions of a package in Nixpkgs.
  Otherwise, it just makes it harder to update the package.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=18403
2009-11-18 09:39:59 +00:00
Marc Weber
52647ea3b0 FullDepEntry -> fullDepEntry, PackEntry -> packEntry
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15662
2009-05-19 23:25:58 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
fcad0b0a5a * Cleaned up a lot of description fields that contained newlines.
Some of these should be longDescriptions, but most others just
  shouldn't contain newlines.  E.g. write

    description = "Bla";

  and not

    description = ''
      Bla
    '';

  This pollutes "nix-env -qa --description" output.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14310
2009-03-03 13:27:40 +00:00
Michael Raskin
c5363217ad meta.function -> passthru.function, not killing other contents of passthru
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13190
2008-11-04 21:24:10 +00:00
Michael Raskin
87ff8d6347 Changed builderDefs to use composedArgsAndFun, reduced number of nulls, made overrides in builderDefsPackage to work in an intuitive manner.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=12655
2008-08-19 05:54:09 +00:00
Michael Raskin
71f8e0911a Added src to meta for builderDefs-based packages.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10913
2008-03-02 18:49:31 +00:00
Michael Raskin
bc46eaf404 Some review of builder-defs and dependent files. No rebuild needed. Now it should be possible to override elements in builderDefs
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10214
2008-01-18 12:36:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
c54b75c959 * Get rid of the `(import (__toPath ((toString
./JustNothing/.. )+"/"+args.version+".nix")))' hack, you can also just
  write `import (./path/to/pkg + "/${version}.nix)'.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9792
2007-11-26 13:24:56 +00:00
Michael Raskin
a9f02cbe6c Fixed Qi
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9603
2007-11-08 15:15:41 +00:00
Michael Raskin
b7a3dcdb94 Added missing Qi
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9602
2007-11-08 14:51:41 +00:00