(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.
fetchpatch is fetchurl that determinizes the patch.
Some parts of generated patches change from time to time, e.g. see #1983 and
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/12815
Using fetchpatch should prevent the hash from changing.
Conflicts (auto-solved):
pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/gitit/default.nix
This is a small wrapper around fetchzip. It allows you to say:
src = fetchGitHub {
owner = "NixOS";
repo = "nix";
rev = "924e19341a5ee488634bc9ce1ea9758ac496afc3"; # or a tag
sha256 = "1ld1jc26wy0smkg63chvdzsppfw6zy1ykf3mmc50hkx397wcbl09";
};
stdenv (on linux) depends on gawk, readline and similar are useless for non-interactive usage.
Close #1596. Original patch was almost completely rewritten by vcunat.
On darwin we always specify whether to use readline, so it isn't always picked as reported.
It's to separate from other changes coming from master.
Conflicts:
pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/2.18/common.nix (taking both changes)
pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/5_4.nix (deleted)
