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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
Eelco Dolstra bd5e996e20 * Apply a patch to fix the "max resident" size reported by ‘time’
being off by a factor of 4.  (The most recent release of ‘time’ is
  from 1996 BTW...)

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30143
2011-10-31 14:44:32 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 0b2be106e0 GNU Time: Improve meta-information.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15288
2009-04-24 13:28:16 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 544cb9cb83 * Rewrite all URLs to GNU mirrors to mirror://gnu/.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9201
2007-08-27 13:42:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c182d49c51 * Added the GNU `time' command.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=8599
2007-04-20 08:50:26 +00:00