summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/gnu/packages/parted.scm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/parted.scm')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/parted.scm9
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/parted.scm b/gnu/packages/parted.scm
index 1f266c9035..9d835d6b6c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/parted.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/parted.scm
@@ -60,11 +60,6 @@
     (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/")
     (synopsis "Disk partition editor")
     (description
-     "GNU Parted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying,
-resizing, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them.  This
-is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk
-usage, copying data on hard disks and disk imaging.
-
-It contains a library, libparted, and a command-line frontend, parted, which
-also serves as a sample implementation and script backend.")
+     "Parted is a tool for creating and manipulating disk partition tables.
+It consists of a library and a command-line tool for performing these tasks.")
     (license gpl3+)))