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| author | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2019-03-18 14:50:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> | 2019-03-18 15:06:12 +0100 |
| commit | 85e2f212a8ac206c3ecc15f647a19c0157ea6bcc (patch) | |
| tree | 64ef7e37bbe11da13c814411987cc006738580ff /gnu | |
| parent | 7e52321f878161f4c2a1d45129eb9f868d18d496 (diff) | |
| download | guix-85e2f212a8ac206c3ecc15f647a19c0157ea6bcc.tar.gz | |
gnu: vips: Improve description.
* gnu/packages/image-processing.scm (vips)[synopsis, description]: Expand.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/image-processing.scm | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm index 296265c769..14e8b15b69 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm @@ -450,9 +450,15 @@ vision algorithms. It can be used to do things like: ("expat" ,expat) ("hdf5" ,hdf5))) (home-page "https://libvips.github.io/libvips/") - (synopsis "Image processing system") + (synopsis "Multithreaded image processing system with low memory needs") (description - "vips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library.") + "VIPS is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. +It's particularly good at processing large images, working with colour, +scientific analysis, and general research & development. + +Compared to most image processing libraries VIPS needs little RAM and runs +quickly, especially on machines with more than one CPU core. This is primarily +due to its architecture which automatically parallelises the image workflows.") (license license:lgpl2.1+))) (define-public nip2 |