nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/text/mpage/default.nix
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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{ fetchurl, stdenv }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "mpage-2.5.6";
src = fetchurl {
url = "http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage/${name}.tgz";
sha256 = "016w9sm06sn1d2lim4p8fzl6wbmad3wigxhflsybzi7p4zy6vrjg";
};
patchPhase = ''
sed -i "Makefile" -e "s|^ *PREFIX *=.*$|PREFIX = $out|g"
'';
meta = {
description = "Many-to-one page printing utility";
longDescription = ''
Mpage reads plain text files or PostScript documents and prints
them on a PostScript printer with the text reduced in size so
that several pages appear on one sheet of paper. This is useful
for viewing large printouts on a small amount of paper. It uses
ISO 8859.1 to print 8-bit characters.
'';
license = "liberal"; # a non-copyleft license, see `Copyright' file
homepage = http://www.mesa.nl/pub/mpage/;
};
}