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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
Peter Simons d0ca8c237e Fix broken license references. 2014-07-28 11:43:20 +02:00
Mateusz Kowalczyk 7a45996233 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
Nixpkgs Monitor 6112fc7fff xaos: update from 3.5 to 3.6 2013-12-16 01:36:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c556a6ea46 * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless
function, so obsolete it.

svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=31644
2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell bcc9c9ab1e Updated xaos to 3.5
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=19096
2009-12-24 17:02:44 +00:00
Marc Weber f7f938a1d1 big breaking change: renaming lib.getAttr to lib.attrByPath
getAttr was ambiguous. It's also a builtin function

fix

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15692
2009-05-24 10:57:41 +00:00
Marc Weber 52647ea3b0 FullDepEntry -> fullDepEntry, PackEntry -> packEntry
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=15662
2009-05-19 23:25:58 +00:00
Michael Raskin 97d0f21d03 Added XaoS fractal viewer
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14004
2009-02-08 14:17:05 +00:00