(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.
i.e., remove the version from the name. Nix has its own mechanism to
prevent a packages to be upgraded. Instead we distinguish development
version (coq-dev-VERSION) from stable versions (coq-VERSION).
Also remove derivation for coq-8.3-beta0-1 which is now superseded by
coq-devel-8.3pre1.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=23813
Note: In this version we introduce a new schema for the name of the coq
derivations where the coq version is included in the name (i.e.,
"coq8.3-8.3pre1" instead of "coq-8.3pre1"). The reason for this is that often
coq releases introduce several incompatibilities. Thus I argue that, in
general, users do not want nix-env to upgrade automatically form one release to
another. Also version string "8.3pre1" is used instead of "8.3-rc1" to trigger
the nix mechanism for versions comparison.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=23803
Bjørn Forsman
John Wiegley
Austin Seipp
Russell O'Connor
Gergely Risko
Marco Maggesi
Shea Levy
Michael Raskin
Eelco Dolstra
Peter Simons
Andres Löh