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Eelco Dolstra 2ed5c2bd6b Set some meta.platforms
Also fix meta.platform -> meta.platforms in a few places.
2015-03-20 20:04:42 +01:00
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 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
Eelco Dolstra 31d4efb9d7 * Oops.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13486
2008-11-28 13:09:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 60431bb1e8 * Install the man page.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13485
2008-11-28 13:06:54 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès 31c156de83 Add `host', a DNS query utility.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13459
2008-11-27 13:54:49 +00:00