nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/science/math
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
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content Mark a bunch of packages as broken or not supported on Darwin 2014-08-08 17:59:02 +02:00
ecm * Typo in attribute. This broke --meta --xml evaluation. 2011-05-04 12:45:05 +00:00
eukleides Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
fricas Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
gap Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into staging. 2014-08-04 16:51:47 +02:00
ginac ginac: fix build on darwin (close #944) 2013-09-08 11:01:48 +02:00
glsurf Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
jags Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
mathematica Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
maxima Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
msieve * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless 2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
pari pari: update from 2.5.4 to 2.5.5 2013-12-21 02:28:25 +02:00
pssp pspp: update from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2 2014-01-25 20:58:49 +01:00
R R: install lib/libR.so for use by other programs such as RStudio 2014-05-17 21:35:02 +02:00
sage Fix evaluation error 2014-04-29 20:40:28 +02:00
scilab * g77 -> gfortran throughout. Got rid of the separate 2009-04-09 15:24:33 +00:00
singular Fix broken license references. 2014-07-28 11:43:20 +02:00
sloane haskell-sloane: update to version 1.9.1 2014-08-07 12:41:55 +02:00
speedcrunch speedcrunch: new package 2013-09-27 00:58:54 +02:00
weka Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
wxmaxima Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
yacas Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00