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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-09 16:14:23 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-10-09 16:14:23 +0200
commita22dc0c49aed0babe16ef92ae24847b343b7eb02 (patch)
tree2d1ce88952d68274437dc07fbffbea688bc0eea3 /gnu/packages/guile.scm
parent668d48a6847bcdc69d2c6e6aa44090f566ecd05b (diff)
downloadguix-a22dc0c49aed0babe16ef92ae24847b343b7eb02.tar.gz
Synchronize package descriptions with the Womb.
* gnu/packages/algebra.scm,
  gnu/packages/aspell.scm,
  gnu/packages/autotools.scm,
  gnu/packages/base.scm,
  gnu/packages/bash.scm,
  gnu/packages/bison.scm,
  gnu/packages/cdrom.scm,
  gnu/packages/cflow.scm,
  gnu/packages/compression.scm,
  gnu/packages/cpio.scm,
  gnu/packages/cppi.scm,
  gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm,
  gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm,
  gnu/packages/ed.scm,
  gnu/packages/emacs.scm,
  gnu/packages/fdisk.scm,
  gnu/packages/freeipmi.scm,
  gnu/packages/gawk.scm,
  gnu/packages/gcal.scm,
  gnu/packages/gcc.scm,
  gnu/packages/gdb.scm,
  gnu/packages/gdbm.scm,
  gnu/packages/gettext.scm,
  gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm,
  gnu/packages/global.scm,
  gnu/packages/gnunet.scm,
  gnu/packages/gnupg.scm,
  gnu/packages/gnutls.scm,
  gnu/packages/gperf.scm,
  gnu/packages/gprolog.scm,
  gnu/packages/groff.scm,
  gnu/packages/grub.scm,
  gnu/packages/gsasl.scm,
  gnu/packages/guile.scm,
  gnu/packages/gv.scm,
  gnu/packages/help2man.scm,
  gnu/packages/idutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/indent.scm,
  gnu/packages/less.scm,
  gnu/packages/libidn.scm,
  gnu/packages/libsigsegv.scm,
  gnu/packages/libunistring.scm,
  gnu/packages/lightning.scm,
  gnu/packages/linux.scm,
  gnu/packages/lsh.scm,
  gnu/packages/m4.scm,
  gnu/packages/mail.scm,
  gnu/packages/maths.scm,
  gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm,
  gnu/packages/nano.scm,
  gnu/packages/ncurses.scm,
  gnu/packages/nettle.scm,
  gnu/packages/ocrad.scm,
  gnu/packages/oggvorbis.scm,
  gnu/packages/parted.scm,
  gnu/packages/plotutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/pth.scm,
  gnu/packages/readline.scm,
  gnu/packages/recutils.scm,
  gnu/packages/rush.scm,
  gnu/packages/scheme.scm,
  gnu/packages/screen.scm,
  gnu/packages/shishi.scm,
  gnu/packages/smalltalk.scm,
  gnu/packages/system.scm,
  gnu/packages/texinfo.scm,
  gnu/packages/time.scm,
  gnu/packages/unrtf.scm,
  gnu/packages/version-control.scm,
  gnu/packages/wdiff.scm,
  gnu/packages/wget.scm,
  gnu/packages/which.scm,
  gnu/packages/xnee.scm,
  gnu/packages/zile.scm: Change value of the 'description' field to that
  of the Womb.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/guile.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/guile.scm33
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile.scm b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
index dfad70884c..653d42c1b2 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
@@ -95,9 +95,11 @@
 
    (synopsis "Scheme implementation intended especially for extensions")
    (description
-"GNU Guile 1.8 is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language,
-packaged as a library that can be embedded into programs to make them
-extensible.  It supports many SRFIs.")
+    "Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the
+official extension language of the GNU system.  It is an implementation of
+the Scheme language which can be easily embedded in other applications to
+provide a convenient means of extending the functionality of the application
+without requiring the source code to be rewritten.")
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/")
    (license lgpl2.0+)))
 
@@ -164,12 +166,11 @@ extensible.  It supports many SRFIs.")
 
    (synopsis "Scheme implementation intended especially for extensions")
    (description
-"GNU Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, with
-support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments.
-In addition to implementing the R5RS Scheme standard and a large subset of
-R6RS, Guile includes a module system, full access to POSIX system calls,
-networking support, multiple threads, dynamic linking, a foreign function
-call interface, and powerful string processing.")
+    "Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the
+official extension language of the GNU system.  It is an implementation of
+the Scheme language which can be easily embedded in other applications to
+provide a convenient means of extending the functionality of the application
+without requiring the source code to be rewritten.")
    (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/")
    (license lgpl3+)))
 
@@ -264,10 +265,7 @@ many readers as needed).")
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/")
     (synopsis "Guile bindings to ncurses")
     (description
-     "GNU Guile-Ncurses is a library for the Guile Scheme interpreter that
-provides functions for creating text user interfaces.  The text user interface
-functionality is built on the ncurses libraries: curses, form, panel, and
-menu.")
+     "guile-ncurses provides guile bindings to the ncurses library.")
     (license lgpl3+)))
 
 (define-public mcron
@@ -288,11 +286,10 @@ menu.")
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/")
     (synopsis "Run jobs at scheduled times")
     (description
-     "The GNU package mcron (Mellor's cron) is a 100% compatible replacement
-for Vixie cron.  It is written in pure Guile, and allows configuration files
-to be written in scheme (as well as Vixie's original format) for infinite
-flexibility in specifying when jobs should be run.  Mcron was written by Dale
-Mellor.")
+     "Mcron is a complete replacement for Vixie cron.  It is used to run
+tasks on a schedule, such as every hour or every Monday.  Mcron is written in
+Guile, so its configuration can be written in Scheme, however the original
+cron format is also supported.")
     (license gpl3+)))
 
 (define-public guile-lib