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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 973c9abdbe Fix info command
The "info" command has been broken on NixOS since
457fdb3842 (proving that nobody uses
info).
2014-07-08 15:19:08 +02:00
John Wiegley 66f0275b41 Disable Texinfo tests on Darwin 2014-05-05 01:03:51 -05:00
Vladimír Čunát 457fdb3842 texinfo: move ncurses support into texinfoInteractive
This, for example, drops the stdenv dependency on ncurses.
2014-04-02 19:05:56 +02:00
Peter Simons 91f2c362de Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into stdenv-updates.
Conflicts:
	pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
2013-10-26 18:28:05 +02:00
Peter Simons 8ff3855204 texinfo: update to version 5.2 2013-09-28 10:36:34 +02:00
Renamed from pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.1.nix (Browse further)