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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/idutils.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.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/idutils.scm b/gnu/packages/idutils.scm
index 16ccd48854..11dd6ea4d4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/idutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/idutils.scm
@@ -43,22 +43,9 @@
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/")
     (synopsis "Identifier database utilities")
     (description
-     "An \"ID database\" is a binary file containing a list of file
-names, a list of tokens, and a sparse matrix indicating which
-tokens appear in which files.
-
-With this database and some tools to query it, many
-text-searching tasks become simpler and faster.  For example,
-you can list all files that reference a particular `\\#include'
-file throughout a huge source hierarchy, search for all the
-memos containing references to a project, or automatically
-invoke an editor on all files containing references to some
-function or variable.  Anyone with a large software project to
-maintain, or a large set of text files to organize, can benefit
-from the ID utilities.
-
-Although the name `ID' is short for `identifier', the ID
-utilities handle more than just identifiers; they also treat
-other kinds of tokens, most notably numeric constants, and the
-contents of certain character strings.")
+     "ID Utils provides tools to create an index if textual tokens used in a
+list of file names and to then query that index.  Thus, it allows the user
+to, for example, find all the uses of a particular function in all files of a
+large programming project.  In addition to handling textual tokens, it can
+also handle numeric constants and the contents of character strings.")
     (license gpl3+)))