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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-03-21 22:16:02 +0100
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-03-21 22:16:02 +0100
commitd19b14c8349ce8cacb62619ab68953265daeeca7 (patch)
tree9aacc6f9378ca69951c87232b3a7526fef2f2054 /gnu/packages/base.scm
parent680b56116a4840a281a45cb130fd45d6d3d46c56 (diff)
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downloadguix-d19b14c8349ce8cacb62619ab68953265daeeca7.tar.gz
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 8dbc0b4b40..c3298b3cec 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Vitaliy Shatrov <D0dyBo0D0dyBo0@protonmail.com>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -335,10 +336,11 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
                      #t)))))
    (synopsis "Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell)")
    (description
-    "GNU Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are
-expected in a POSIX system.  These provide the basic file, shell and text
-manipulation functions of the GNU system.  Most of these tools offer extended
-functionality beyond that which is outlined in the POSIX standard.")
+    "GNU Coreutils package includes all of the basic command-line tools that
+are expected in a POSIX system, excluding shell.  This package is the union of
+the GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.  Most of these tools
+offer extended functionality beyond that which is outlined in the POSIX
+standard.")
    (license gpl3+)
    (home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/")))