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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
Eelco Dolstra
e2a374799f * Reverted most of the recent Python refactorings, as discussed. It's
a worthy goal to move the Python packages that are currently in
  all-packages.nix into a single attribute set, but this doesn't
  require moving python-packages.nix or the other changes made to that
  file.  The Python packages in all-packages.nix should simply be
  moved to python-packages.nix, and ideally changed to use
  buildPythonPackage.

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=21196
2010-04-21 10:51:15 +00:00
Marc Weber
8c0b7e4ad2 - adding experimental python31 build
- cleanup python libraries:
 * moving all python libraries into a attr set into a directory
   so that expressions can be used for both: python 2.5 and 2.6 easily
 * disabling packages which don't build

svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=21142
2010-04-17 18:28:25 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
d77f3177fe Add Python Numeric.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=12975
2008-10-06 18:56:47 +00:00