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/misc/ghostscript/default.nix | 4 ++-- pkgs/misc/xosd/default.nix | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'pkgs/misc') diff --git a/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/default.nix index 275b93e01b8b..b8c879d598ba 100644 --- a/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/misc/ghostscript/default.nix @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ assert cupsSupport -> cups != null; let meta_common = { homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/"; - description = "GNU Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter"; + description = "PostScript interpreter (GNU version)"; longDescription = '' Ghostscript is the name of a set of tools that provides (i) an @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ let }; meta = meta_common // { homepage = "http://www.ghostscript.com/"; - description = "GPL Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter"; + description = "PostScript interpreter (mainline version)"; }; preConfigure = '' diff --git a/pkgs/misc/xosd/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/xosd/default.nix index d6b73ed16fe0..54538be84b41 100644 --- a/pkgs/misc/xosd/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/misc/xosd/default.nix @@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { buildInputs = [ libX11 libXext libXt xextproto xproto ]; meta = { - description = "XOSD displays text on your screen"; + description = "Displays text on your screen"; }; } -- cgit 1.4.1