(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.
Spotify doesn't start:
$ ./result/bin/spotify
/nix/store/yx05s6irqil8a24ilyvjvhnjljmm8f15-spotify-0.9.4.183/bin/.spotify-wrapped: error while loading shared libraries: libcef.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
That is fixed with adding $out/spotify-client/Data to RPATH.
Then Spotify errors out trying to open libudev.so.0. We don't have that
in nixpkgs, so I'm making a symlink to libudev.so.1 instead.
Tested on NixOS x86_64-linux.
the box because it requires /usr/share/spotify to point at its
resources. So to get it to work, you should do something like:
$ nix-env -i spotify
$ mkdir -p /usr/share
$ ln -s /home/eelco/.nix-profile/share/spotify /usr/share/
Also note that the Linux client doesn't work with free Spotify
accounts (as noted on
https://www.spotify.com/nl/download/previews/).
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