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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
William A. Kennington III bdb842d5eb Move all db4 packages to the default db5 2014-02-15 12:03:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 674c51af3c Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into stdenv-updates 2013-03-07 19:33:52 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès b6452df939 libchop: fix builds with glibc 2.16+ 2013-03-02 11:14:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ab3eeabfed Rename buildNativeInputs -> nativeBuildInputs
Likewise for propagatedBuildNativeInputs, etc.  "buildNativeInputs"
sounds like an imperative rather than a noun phrase.
2012-12-28 19:20:09 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès 8ab088c668 libchop 0.5.2.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=32726
2012-03-01 21:39:43 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 1ff3207641 Updating libchop to 0.5.1
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30444
2011-11-16 14:43:04 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 175f3b3e62 libchop: Add patches that fix the whole thing.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30430
2011-11-14 20:10:01 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 82c276606e libchop: Build on Hydra.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30418
2011-11-13 23:22:30 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès c9e8f6fc40 libchop: Attempt to fix bug in Guile bindings; augment the expression.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30417
2011-11-13 22:25:30 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell ac443637fe Fixing the description of libchop; it had the reminiscences of the gnutls default.nix I used as base.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30413
2011-11-13 14:56:14 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell eb3c58cd64 Adding libchop. I want to try it. Why didn't ludo add this, I don't know. :)
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=30411
2011-11-13 14:33:31 +00:00