(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.
* By default, QEMU's CPUID identifies the CPU as GenuineIntel, family
6, model 2. Since there never was a physical 64-bit CPU like that,
64-bit GMP calls abort(). This causes every program linked against
libgmp to fail under QEMU (unless an appropriate -cpu or -M flag is
used), which is rather bad, especially for users of hosting
providers who cannot change QEMU's flags. The patch causes GMP to
be more liberal (i.e., use non-CPU-specific implementations).
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=33531
Merge conflicts:
* unzip (almost trivial)
* dvswitch (trivial)
* gmp (copied result of `git merge`)
The last item introduced gmp-5.0.3, thus full rebuild.
+ensureDir->mkdir -p in TeX packages was catched by git but not svn.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=32091
some redundant builds (e.g., GMP was built three times).
* Updated GMP to 5.0.2.
* Updated PPL to 0.11.2.
* Remove ad hoc flags to build GCC's dependencies statically.
Instead, use the ‘makeStaticLibraries’ stdenv adapter.
* Build GMP with C++ support by default.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=30891
gmp; we can update all once we have stable ppl 0.11 and a working cloog-ppl
with all that.
This way we should at least gcc4.5 building with ppl/cloog-ppl
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=22271
