# HG changeset patch # User Samuel Trassare # Date 1329784585 28800 # Node ID 0c849a954ff9d8afd883e0b97058e0b8354cd531 # Parent a91f4b450f796cd680e6ce4d96e1bf4f3c5e81b2 added description files for some packages starting with a thru b diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 acl/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/acl/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +This package contains commands for Manipulating POSIX Access Control Lists. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 alsa-lib/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/alsa-lib/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI +functionality to the Linux operating system. This package provides the ALSA +libraries. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 apache/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/apache/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating +systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of +this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that +provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the +most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 apr-util/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/apr-util/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ +APR-util provides a number of helpful abstractions on top of APR. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 apr/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/apr/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and +maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface +to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide +an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if +not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is +built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around +or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 aspell/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/aspell/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker. It can either be used as a +library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a +superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just +about any other spell checker out there for the English language. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 atk/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/atk/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +The accessibility tool kit contains the atk library. This is useful for allowing +accessibility solutions to be available for all gtk+-2 and gtk+-3 applications. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 atkmm/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/atkmm/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +atkmm is the official C++ interface for the ATK accessibility toolkit library. +It may be used, for instance, by user interfaces implemented with gtkmm. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 audiofile/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/audiofile/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Audio File Library handles reading and writing audio files in many common +formats. + +Key goals of the Audio File Library are file format transparency and data format +transparency. The same calls for opening a file, accessing and manipulating +audio metadata (e.g. sample rate, sample format, textual information, MIDI +parameters), and reading and writing sample data will work with any supported +audio file format. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 autoconf/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/autoconf/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to +automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt +the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user +intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a +template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, +in the form of M4 macro calls. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 babl/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/babl/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format translation library. + +It allows converting between different methods of storing pixels known as pixel +formats that have different bitdepths and other data representations, color +models and component permutations. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 bash/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/bash/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bash is a shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. +Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn +shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX +P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements +over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts +can be run by Bash without modification. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 bc/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/bc/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to +C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of +statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 binutils/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/binutils/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are: + + ld - the GNU linker. + as - the GNU assembler. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 bison/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/bison/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context- +free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing +LALR(1) parser tables. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 boinc/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/boinc/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, +study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific +research. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 busybox/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/busybox/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single +small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you +usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox +generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, +the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave +very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete +environment for any small or embedded system. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 bzip2/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/bzip2/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It +typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques +(the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast +at compression and six times faster at decompression. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 maxima/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/maxima/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, +including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, +ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and +sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision +numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and +variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in +two and three dimensions. diff -r a91f4b450f79 -r 0c849a954ff9 slitaz-boot-scripts/description.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/slitaz-boot-scripts/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +This package contains all default boot scripts to get SliTaz GNU/Linux up to a +runable, and more importantly, usable, state. +