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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
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applications Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
build-support Merge pull request #3650 from bennofs/prefetch-git-human-readable 2014-08-23 13:05:55 +04:00
data data/fonts/terminus-font: Update to 4.39. 2014-08-24 20:06:43 +04:00
desktops Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
development Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
games Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
misc Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
os-specific Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
servers Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
shells Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
stdenv Merge pull request #2455 from bjornfor/helpful-messages-when-refusing-eval 2014-08-12 20:18:10 +02:00
test
tools Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
top-level haskell-ghc-mod: update to version 5.0.1.1 2014-08-24 20:28:13 +02:00