Packaging changes:
* Switch from autoconf to cmake.
Fixes error
checking for guile-config... guile-config
sh: =~: unknown operand
./configure: ./configure.lineno: line 8057: syntax error: bad substitution
that appared with the new version.
* Also add new dependencies for new features: git, python
* (fixes all "missing" errors in cmake's output)
* Stay at Qt4 for now to not introduce too many changes
* Upgrading to Qt5 in the future is feasible (#33248); it builds
* I'm not doing it here because Qt5 apps apparently don't run yet on non-NixOS
(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.
texmacs now has extra font options.
texmacs is abstracted over which tex it uses (AFAIK texmacs only uses metafont).
texmacs now depends on aspell, ghostscript soft dependencies.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=24054
