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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Mateusz Kowalczyk
7a45996233 Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès
fef7d9197e libunistring: Make libiconv a propagated input when cross-building for MinGW.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=27577
2011-07-01 15:51:55 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
7762934904 BDW-GC, GMP, libffi, libunistring, Readline: Don't use the native `strip'.
Using the native `strip' breaks static libraries when cross-compiling.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=27572
2011-07-01 13:20:12 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
53c13c6892 GNU libunistring 0.9.3.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=21699
2010-05-09 23:14:50 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
1afa19a68a libunistring: Try to get the shared library on Cygwin.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=20038
2010-02-16 09:08:40 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
39a69da121 libunistring: Disable tests on non-GNU systems.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=20005
2010-02-15 09:36:33 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
d8a5443d61 GNU libunistring 0.9.2.1.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=19995
2010-02-14 22:05:50 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
76494a3029 libunistring: Build on all platforms.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=19951
2010-02-12 13:40:53 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
0ff12bddac GNU libunistring: Propagate libiconv.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17298
2009-09-20 13:54:22 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
de9c8771bd GNU libunistring 0.9.1.1.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17287
2009-09-19 22:17:11 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
51f3a05ab5 GNU libunistring 0.9.1.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16153
2009-07-02 22:54:19 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
c46b748958 Add GNU Libunistring, a Unicode string handling library.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=16071
2009-06-27 21:44:47 +00:00