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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
Ludovic Courtès 2e937c437a unmaintain several packages 2013-08-16 23:45:01 +02:00
Florian Friesdorf 471a9615a2 fix mpich2 and mplayer 2012-07-24 14:17:45 +02:00
David Guibert f4b2ec4b58 fix nixpkgs tarball.
Not all systems have glibc into stdenv but mpich needs to propagate
it (because when linking pthread and rt librairies are required).

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=28623
2011-08-16 21:13:20 +00:00
David Guibert f893414286 mpich2: 1.4
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=28620
2011-08-16 18:17:36 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 279d597082 MPICH2 1.2.1.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=19717
2010-01-27 22:13:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fcad0b0a5a * Cleaned up a lot of description fields that contained newlines.
Some of these should be longDescriptions, but most others just
  shouldn't contain newlines.  E.g. write

    description = "Bla";

  and not

    description = ''
      Bla
    '';

  This pollutes "nix-env -qa --description" output.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14310
2009-03-03 13:27:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 4050f8fa45 Add MPICH2, an implementation of the Message Passing Interface.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=10807
2008-02-21 16:17:43 +00:00