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Fix many package descriptions

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(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.
This commit is contained in:
Bjørn Forsman
2014-08-24 16:21:08 +02:00
parent 2a6c7e2874
commit c9baba9212
275 changed files with 301 additions and 286 deletions
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pkgs/development/compilers/bigloo/default.nix
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
checkTarget = "test";
meta = {
description = "Bigloo, an efficient Scheme compiler";
description = "Efficient Scheme compiler";
longDescription = ''
Bigloo is a Scheme implementation devoted to one goal: enabling

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pkgs/development/compilers/gambit/default.nix
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ rec {
phaseNames = ["doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
meta = {
description = "Gambit Scheme to C compiler";
description = "Scheme to C compiler";
maintainers = [
a.lib.maintainers.raskin
];

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pkgs/development/compilers/hugs/default.nix
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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} {
meta = {
license = "as-is"; # gentoo is calling it this way..
description = "The HUGS 98 Haskell interpreter";
description = "Haskell interpreter";
homepage = http://www.haskell.org/hugs;
};
}

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pkgs/development/compilers/ikarus/default.nix
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
buildInputs = [ gmp ];
meta = {
description = "Ikarus - a Scheme compiler, aiming at R6RS";
description = "Scheme compiler, aiming at R6RS";
homepage = http://ikarus-scheme.org/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
};

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pkgs/development/compilers/mercury/default.nix
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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
'';
meta = {
description = "Mercury is a pure logic programming language.";
description = "A pure logic programming language";
longDescription = ''
Mercury is a logic/functional programming language which combines the
clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming with advanced

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/3.10.0.nix
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
meta = {
homepage = http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml;
license = "QPL, LGPL2 (library part)";
desctiption = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
description = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
};
})

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/3.11.2.nix
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
meta = {
homepage = http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml;
license = [ "QPL" /* compiler */ "LGPLv2" /* library */ ];
description = "Objective Caml, the most popular variant of the Caml language";
description = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
longDescription =
'' Objective Caml is the most popular variant of the Caml language.

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/3.12.1.nix
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
meta = {
homepage = http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml;
license = [ "QPL" /* compiler */ "LGPLv2" /* library */ ];
description = "OCaml, the most popular variant of the Caml language";
description = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
longDescription =
''

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/4.00.1.nix
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
meta = {
homepage = http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml;
license = [ "QPL" /* compiler */ "LGPLv2" /* library */ ];
description = "OCaml, the most popular variant of the Caml language";
description = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
longDescription =
''

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/4.01.0.nix
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
meta = {
homepage = http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml;
license = [ "QPL" /* compiler */ "LGPLv2" /* library */ ];
description = "OCaml, the most popular variant of the Caml language";
description = "Most popular variant of the Caml language";
longDescription =
''

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pkgs/development/compilers/ocaml/ber-metaocaml-003.nix
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@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
meta = {
homepage = "http://okmij.org/ftp/ML/index.html#ber-metaocaml";
license = [ "QPL" /* compiler */ "LGPLv2" /* library */ ];
description = "a conservative extension of OCaml with the primitive type of code values, and three basic multi-stage expression forms: Brackets, Escape, and Run";
description = "A conservative extension of OCaml with the primitive type of code values, and three basic multi-stage expression forms: Brackets, Escape, and Run";
};
}

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pkgs/development/compilers/qi/default.nix
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@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
builder = writeScript (name + "-builder")
(textClosure localDefs [allBuild doForceShare doPropagate]);
meta = {
description = "Qi - next generation on top of Common Lisp";
description = "Functional programming language, built top of Common Lisp";
};
}

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pkgs/development/compilers/rdmd/default.nix
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
'';
meta = {
description = "rdmd wrapper for D language compiler";
description = "Wrapper for D language compiler";
homepage = http://dlang.org/rdmd.html;
license = lib.licenses.boost;
maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ vlstill ];

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pkgs/development/compilers/scala/default.nix
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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
'';
meta = {
description = "Scala is a general purpose programming language";
description = "General purpose programming language";
longDescription = ''
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express
common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.

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pkgs/development/compilers/tinycc/default.nix
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
checkTarget = "test";
meta = {
description = "TinyCC, a small, fast, and embeddable C compiler and interpreter";
description = "Small, fast, and embeddable C compiler and interpreter";
longDescription =
'' TinyCC (aka TCC) is a small but hyper fast C compiler. Unlike