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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-25 06:45:29 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-26 00:09:19 +0100
commite80611c4550577d7ce0578d79dafe479f8350289 (patch)
tree5568f2a26b3b982955cdd73a27379e8631c601a2 /gnu
parent4525e7c7f4b87ddae66d11f0c3d1d507cebaeab4 (diff)
downloadguix-e80611c4550577d7ce0578d79dafe479f8350289.tar.gz
gnu: nss-mdns: Improve synopsis and description.
* gnu/packages/avahi.scm (nss-mdns)[synopis, description]: Edit to
appease ‘guix lint’ and, I hope, be a bit more clear.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/avahi.scm10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
index 8f87bc40c5..f4d17c5c15 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ DNS-SD (for \"DNS-Based Service Discovery\") protocols.")
      ;; appropriately.
      '(#:configure-flags '("--localstatedir=/var")))
     (home-page "https://github.com/lathiat/nss-mdns")
-    (synopsis "The mDNS Name Service Switch (NSS) plug-in")
+    (synopsis "Multicast DNS Name Service Switch (@dfn{NSS}) plug-in")
     (description
-     "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
-of the GNU C Library, providing host name resolution via Multicast DNS (mDNS).
-It allows for name resolution by programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain
-'.local'.")
+     "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the GNU C Library's Name Service Switch
+(@dfn{NSS}) that resolves host names via multicast DNS (@dfn{mDNS}).  It is
+most often used in home and other small networks without a local name server,
+to resolve host names in the @samp{.local} top-level domain.")
     (license lgpl2.1+)))