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8 Commits

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
Eelco Dolstra
da426c7df5 Fix some meta.platforms attributes to build more stuff on Darwin 2013-11-05 10:46:59 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès
2e937c437a unmaintain several packages 2013-08-16 23:45:01 +02:00
Ludovic Courtès
e80ec28da1 libiconv: disable stripping when cross-compiling 2013-03-29 21:46:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
72684fb42f Remove support for the obsolete powerpc-darwin and i686-darwin platforms 2012-11-29 14:10:49 +01:00
Ludovic Courtès
8c810af59b GNU libiconv: Build the static library on Cygwin.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=34269
2012-05-29 09:08:55 +00:00
Ludovic Courtès
e3351fb625 Add GNU libiconv as a stand-alone package.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=17282
2009-09-19 22:03:24 +00:00