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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
Mateusz Kowalczyk
7a45996233 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
Peter Simons
8e9ff8e1ab cppi: update to version 1.18 2013-03-18 11:37:46 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès
4cedde0da4 GNU cppi 1.16.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=33702
2012-04-09 20:51:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d4d7931a62 * Cleanup: remove obsolete references to ‘xz’, which is in stdenv now.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=31678
2012-01-18 20:53:01 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
9170abe84d GNU cppi 1.15.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=21052
2010-04-13 08:56:11 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
07356746ef Add GNU cppi.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=20363
2010-03-04 11:10:44 +00:00