This reverts commit 469f22d717, reversing
changes made to 0078bc5d8f.
Conflicts:
nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-generate-config.pl
nixos/modules/system/boot/loader/grub/install-grub.pl
nixos/release.nix
nixos/tests/installer.nix
I tried to keep apparently-safe code in conflicts.
(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 reason I went through this whole journey of gathering dependencies
and debugging just in order to get i3 tests working was because I wanted
to supply test cases to a small patch I wrote for the upstream project.
This adds/updates quite a few Perl packages and a X dummy helper, which
are all needed in order to successfully run the test suite.
This is actually a small script which just starts an X server without
any real display. Right now only needed for running the test suite of
the i3 window manager within the Nix chroot, but might be useful for
running other tests needing a DISPLAY.
Usage is just like a regular X server, so in order to start an instance
for display :666, you just run it like this:
xdummy :666
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
