From c9baba9212feb6e39151118647d45b34b029a6df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bjørn Forsman Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:21:08 +0200 Subject: 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. --- pkgs/applications/misc/bitcoin/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/camlistore/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/gpsbabel/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/gv/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/posterazor/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix | 3 +-- pkgs/applications/misc/tangogps/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/viking/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix | 2 +- pkgs/applications/misc/xfe/default.nix | 2 +- 10 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'pkgs/applications/misc') diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/bitcoin/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/bitcoin/default.nix index e38d427be8d5..d7c1fbc487b7 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/bitcoin/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/bitcoin/default.nix @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { enableParallelBuilding = true; meta = { - description = "Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency"; + description = "Peer-to-peer electronic cash system"; longDescription= '' Bitcoin is a free open source peer-to-peer electronic cash system that is completely decentralized, without the need for a central server or trusted diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/camlistore/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/camlistore/default.nix index 56131425ab4b..9adac335c0c7 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/camlistore/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/camlistore/default.nix @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ''; meta = with stdenv.lib; { - description = "Camlistore is a way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content"; + description = "A way of storing, syncing, sharing, modelling and backing up content"; homepage = https://camlistore.org; license = licenses.asl20; maintainers = with maintainers; [ cstrahan ]; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/gpsbabel/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/gpsbabel/default.nix index bf44f91056d7..5d4c2634952d 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/gpsbabel/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/gpsbabel/default.nix @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { doCheck = true; meta = { - description = "GPSBabel, a tool to convert, upload and download data from GPS and Map programs"; + description = "Convert, upload and download data from GPS and Map programs"; longDescription = '' GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/gv/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/gv/default.nix index 4867bef1f719..3fad634b18b7 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/gv/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/gv/default.nix @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = { homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/; - description = "GNU gv, a PostScript/PDF document viewer"; + description = "PostScript/PDF document viewer"; longDescription = '' GNU gv allows users to view and navigate through PostScript and diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/posterazor/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/posterazor/default.nix index 0cad2fbd2cd3..38fac21322cc 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/posterazor/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/posterazor/default.nix @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { meta = { homepage = "http://posterazor.sourceforge.net/"; - description = "The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster"; + description = "Cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster"; maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.madjar ]; platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all; }; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix index 1ca8ec045d61..d4c41edde30e 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix @@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ''; meta = { - description = "stardict"; - homepage = "A international dictionary supporting fuzzy and glob style matching"; + description = "An international dictionary supporting fuzzy and glob style matching"; license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl3; maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [qknight]; }; diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/tangogps/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/tangogps/default.nix index aa1df2c9d1a6..0a2c1c88c239 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/tangogps/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/tangogps/default.nix @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ''; meta = { - description = "tangoGPS, a user friendly map and GPS user interface"; + description = "User friendly map and GPS user interface"; longDescription = '' tangoGPS is an easy to use, fast and lightweight mapping diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/viking/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/viking/default.nix index 6508b12e1de8..9afabe0372d1 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/viking/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/viking/default.nix @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { doCheck = true; meta = { - description = "Viking, a GPS data editor and analyzer"; + description = "GPS data editor and analyzer"; longDescription = '' Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix index 7594014d769e..6ead69db2209 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/wordnet/default.nix @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { ''; meta = { - description = "WordNet, a lexical database for the English language"; + description = "Lexical database for the English language"; longDescription = '' WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/xfe/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/xfe/default.nix index d09a899b897f..e216b19fab5a 100644 --- a/pkgs/applications/misc/xfe/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/xfe/default.nix @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { enableParallelBuilding = true; meta = { - description = "X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer like file manager for X"; + description = "MS-Explorer like file manager for X"; longDescription = '' X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer like file manager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander, which was developed by Maxim Baranov. -- cgit 1.4.1