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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/libraries/eventlog/default.nix')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/eventlog/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/eventlog/default.nix index b1239d6f4cf4..7a8ab8e464b4 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/eventlog/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/eventlog/default.nix @@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { }; meta = { - description = "A new API to format and send structured log messages."; + description = "Syslog event logger library"; + longDescription = '' + The EventLog library aims to be a replacement of the simple syslog() API + provided on UNIX systems. The major difference between EventLog and + syslog is that EventLog tries to add structure to messages. + + Where you had a simple non-structrured string in syslog() you have a + combination of description and tag/value pairs. + ''; homepage = "http://www.balabit.com/support/community/products/"; license = "BSD"; }; |