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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 8a7f3c3618 Mark a bunch of packages as broken or not supported on Darwin 2014-08-08 17:59:02 +02:00
Mateusz Kowalczyk 7a45996233 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès 6caf0820f9 lsh: Assume UNIX98 PTYs are available.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=33627
2012-04-05 16:26:44 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès e5eb79cee4 lsh: Fix typo.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16986
2009-09-08 10:31:07 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 80e34c69f5 lsh: Use GNU URL; handle --no-root-login' in lshd'.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16985
2009-09-08 10:29:22 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 26bd10a892 lsh: Help `lsh-make-seed' gather more entropy.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16978
2009-09-07 13:45:06 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès d9cfe67b9f lsh: Change the PAM service name in accordance with NixOS (had forgotten to commit it).
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14542
2009-03-15 14:11:21 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 95f0e6a1a7 Differentiate between longDescription' and description'.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=11230
2008-03-20 14:35:03 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès f6fc5661b8 Add PAM support to lsh.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10970
2008-03-05 16:49:51 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès c81efcdedb Add GNU lsh, a GPL'd implementation of SSH, and `liboop', and event loop library.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10637
2008-02-12 10:51:44 +00:00