The current sudo password prompt is "Password: ", while distros like
e.g. Ubuntu and Arch Linux use "[sudo] password for %p: ", where "%p"
expands to the username of the user running sudo.
Adopt the prompt from other distros because it makes it less confusing
when running commands with sudo that themselves ask for a password.
It currently seems impossible to make sudo send emails. No matter how much
debugging I enable, sudo continues to be silent about sendmail. I tried setting
"Defaults mailerpath=/var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail" but that too was completely
ignored (except for logging that the variable mailerpath exists with the value
I assigned to it...).
This enables sendmail support and sets a default value that works on NixOS.
(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.
Note: hash of trousers tarball didn't match (anymore),
so I updated it to the one from sourceforge.
It's probably some safe and tiny retrospective update.
