Issue #15279 reports:
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Checking for OpenSSL library... using OpenSSL from /nix/store/c6kijfc5py2805lmqczvmcws5cm9jg1l-openssl-1.0.2g-dev/lib and /nix/store/c6kijfc5py2805lmqczvmcws5cm9jg1l-openssl-1.0.2g-dev/include
checking whether linking with OpenSSL works... no
configure: error: Could not run test program using OpenSSL from
/nix/store/c6kijfc5py2805lmqczvmcws5cm9jg1l-openssl-1.0.2g-dev/lib and /nix/store/c6kijfc5py2805lmqczvmcws5cm9jg1l-openssl-1.0.2g-dev/include.
Please check the argument to --with-openssl and your
shared library configuration (e.g., LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
builder for ‘/nix/store/54nni99j4ycwws6zfjwcvv8vxsdk895i-bind-9.10.4.drv’ failed with exit code 1
````
(My OCD kicked in today...)
Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.
I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.
I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).
Some specifics worth mentioning:
* cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
description.
* ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
"exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
at the end of description.
* nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
nixos.org).
* Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
either.
The BIND configure script finds extra dependencies in /usr/include and /usr/lib,
and activates additional features if it does. This may cause the build to fail
on systems that cannot use a chroot environment. Actively disabling those
additional features prevents this issue from occurring.
`selectVersion ./foo "bar"' instead of `import ./foo/bar.nix'.
* Replaced `with args' with formal function arguments in several
packages.
* Renamed several files to `default.nix'. As a general rule, version
numbers should only be included in the filename when there is a
reason to keep multiple versions of a package in Nixpkgs.
Otherwise, it just makes it harder to update the package.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=18403
