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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/nettle.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/nettle.scm b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
index b8ba9bf04a..f93c914996 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/nettle.scm
@@ -41,20 +41,7 @@
     (home-page "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/")
     (synopsis "C library for low-level crytographic functionality")
     (description
-     "Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily
-in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented
-languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG,
-or even in kernel space.  In most contexts, you need more than the basic
-cryptographic algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of
-available algorithms, their properties and variants.  You often have
-some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol you want
-to implement.
-
-And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and not so
-subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can be a pain to use
-in a different context.  And that is why there are so many different
-cryptographic libraries around.  \nNettle tries to avoid this problem by
-doing one thing, the low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but
-general interface to it.  In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm
-selection.  It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any I/O.")
+     "Nettle is a low-level cryptographic library.  It is designed to fit in
+easily in almost any context.  It can be easily included in cryptographic
+toolkits for object-oriented languages or in applications themselves.")
     (license gpl2+)))