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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-06-06 06:29:42 +0200
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2020-06-06 09:21:49 +0200
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gnu: mcelog: Update description.
I believe that nowadays rasdaemon is a/the recommended alternative.

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (mcelog)[description]: Remove ‘required’.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
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@@ -5505,10 +5505,10 @@ the default @code{nsswitch} and the experimental @code{umich_ldap}.")
     (home-page "https://mcelog.org/")
     (synopsis "Machine check monitor for x86 Linux systems")
     (description
-     "The mcelog daemon is required by the Linux kernel to log memory, I/O, CPU,
-and other hardware errors on x86 systems.  It can also perform user-defined
-tasks, such as bringing bad pages off-line, when configurable error thresholds
-are exceeded.")
+     "The mcelog daemon logs memory, I/O, CPU, and other hardware errors on x86
+systems running the kernel Linux.  It can also perform user-defined tasks, such
+as bringing bad pages off-line, when configurable error thresholds are
+exceeded.")
     (license license:gpl2)))
 
 (define-public mtd-utils