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.

17 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
index 8d8fc5d464e8..fc48a4aabada 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU Binutils, tools for manipulating binaries (linker, assembler, etc.)";
+    description = "Tools for manipulating binaries (linker, assembler, etc.)";
 
     longDescription = ''
       The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools.  The main
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cflow/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cflow/default.nix
index 53bc8ed78c8b..b1322d461ee7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cflow/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cflow/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   doCheck = true;
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU cflow, a tool to analyze the control flow of C programs";
+    description = "Tool to analyze the control flow of C programs";
 
     longDescription = ''
       GNU cflow analyzes a collection of C source files and prints a
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/coccinelle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/coccinelle/default.nix
index 0bf5bbce692d..51f5ed6091fa 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/coccinelle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/coccinelle/default.nix
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
   configureFlags = "--enable-release";
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Coccinelle, a program to apply C code semantic patches";
+    description = "Program to apply semantic patches to C code";
 
     longDescription =
       '' Coccinelle is a program matching and transformation engine which
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/complexity/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/complexity/default.nix
index 9f1eca0fa13c..a7ae4d17ab10 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/complexity/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/complexity/default.nix
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU Complexity, C code complexity measurement tool";
+    description = "C code complexity measurement tool";
 
     longDescription =
       '' GNU Complexity is a tool designed for analyzing the complexity of C
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix
index 500129c7c9de..2942408de806 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = {
     homepage = http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cppi/;
 
-    description = "GNU cppi, a cpp directive indenter";
+    description = "A C preprocessor directive indenter";
 
     longDescription =
       '' GNU cppi indents C preprocessor directives to reflect their nesting
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
index 3a83b1ba3251..223f19682746 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Cscope, a developer's tool for browsing source code";
+    description = "A developer's tool for browsing source code";
 
     longDescription = ''
       Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.  It has
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ctags/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ctags/default.nix
index 80def733cf8c..bf13a5daa666 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ctags/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ctags/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://ctags.sourceforge.net/";
-    description = "Exuberant Ctags, a tool for fast source code browsing";
+    description = "A tool for fast source code browsing (exuberant ctags)";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
 
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gdb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gdb/default.nix
index 2b5ced780633..5ee0f64a4e41 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gdb/default.nix
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   doCheck = false;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "GDB, the GNU Project debugger";
+    description = "The GNU Project debugger";
 
     longDescription = ''
       GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gengetopt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gengetopt/default.nix
index 9926dd6cd334..19e934f884f7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gengetopt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gengetopt/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   doCheck = true;
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU Gengetopt, a command-line option parser generator";
+    description = "Command-line option parser generator";
 
     longDescription =
       '' GNU Gengetopt program generates a C function that uses getopt_long
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/global/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/global/default.nix
index d6abf8d10bdb..b366feb304a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/global/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/global/default.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU GLOBAL source code tag system";
+    description = "Source code tag system";
 
     longDescription = ''
       GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
index e25998e54204..f0fd081ec5f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/default.nix
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU gperf, a perfect hash function generator";
+    description = "Perfect hash function generator";
 
     longDescription = ''
       GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator.  For a given
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
index 23bd35c8739a..c4ba7073889d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/help2man/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU help2man generates man pages from `--help' output";
+    description = "Generate man pages from `--help' output";
 
     longDescription =
       '' help2man produces simple manual pages from the ‘--help’ and
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/default.nix
index 5eee9ead5d63..262d8aad23bb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   dontPatchShebangs = true;
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU Libtool, a generic library support script";
+    description = "Generic library support script";
 
     longDescription = ''
       GNU libtool is a generic library support script.  Libtool hides
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sloccount/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sloccount/default.nix
index 455305be7492..1aa9a2c058d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sloccount/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/sloccount/default.nix
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = {
-    description = "SLOCCount, a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)";
+    description = "Set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)";
 
     longDescription = ''
       This is the home page of "SLOCCount", a set of tools for
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
index 09978b5ad650..66d6b65453ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/default.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--disable-ccache";
 
   meta = {
-    description = "SWIG, an interface compiler that connects C/C++ code to higher-level languages";
+    description = "Interface compiler that connects C/C++ code to higher-level languages";
 
     longDescription = ''
        SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C and
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.nix
index 5131d3814123..a31552305147 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.nix
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   #doCheck = true;
 
   meta = {
-    description = "GNU Texinfo, the GNU documentation system";
+    description = "The GNU documentation system";
 
     longDescription = ''
       Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix
index 804e7a2527fe..62e1ff62d1e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/";
-    description = "GNU Texinfo, the GNU documentation system";
+    description = "The GNU documentation system";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;