wok rev 11723

added description files for some packages starting with a thru b
author Samuel Trassare <samuel_trassare@yahoo.com>
date Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 (2012-02-20)
parents a91f4b450f79
children 2e7585c1b74c
files acl/description.txt alsa-lib/description.txt apache/description.txt apr-util/description.txt apr/description.txt aspell/description.txt atk/description.txt atkmm/description.txt audiofile/description.txt autoconf/description.txt babl/description.txt bash/description.txt bc/description.txt binutils/description.txt bison/description.txt boinc/description.txt busybox/description.txt bzip2/description.txt maxima/description.txt slitaz-boot-scripts/description.txt
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     1.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     1.2 +++ b/acl/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
     1.4 +This package contains commands for Manipulating POSIX Access Control Lists.
     2.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     2.2 +++ b/alsa-lib/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     2.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
     2.4 +The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI 
     2.5 +functionality to the Linux operating system. This package provides the ALSA
     2.6 +libraries.
     3.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     3.2 +++ b/apache/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     3.3 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
     3.4 +The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating 
     3.5 +systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of 
     3.6 +this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that 
     3.7 +provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the
     3.8 +most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. 
     4.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     4.2 +++ b/apr-util/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     4.3 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
     4.4 +APR-util provides a number of helpful abstractions on top of APR.
     5.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     5.2 +++ b/apr/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     5.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
     5.4 +The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and 
     5.5 +maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface 
     5.6 +to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide 
     5.7 +an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if 
     5.8 +not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is 
     5.9 +built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around
    5.10 +or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.
     6.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     6.2 +++ b/aspell/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     6.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
     6.4 +GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker. It can either be used as a 
     6.5 +library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a 
     6.6 +superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just
     6.7 +about any other spell checker out there for the English language.
     7.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     7.2 +++ b/atk/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     7.3 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
     7.4 +The accessibility tool kit contains the atk library. This is useful for allowing
     7.5 +accessibility solutions to be available for all gtk+-2 and gtk+-3 applications. 
     8.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     8.2 +++ b/atkmm/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     8.3 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
     8.4 +atkmm is the official C++ interface for the ATK accessibility toolkit library. 
     8.5 +It may be used, for instance, by user interfaces implemented with gtkmm.
     9.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     9.2 +++ b/audiofile/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
     9.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
     9.4 +The Audio File Library handles reading and writing audio files in many common 
     9.5 +formats.
     9.6 +
     9.7 +Key goals of the Audio File Library are file format transparency and data format
     9.8 +transparency. The same calls for opening a file, accessing and manipulating 
     9.9 +audio metadata (e.g. sample rate, sample format, textual information, MIDI 
    9.10 +parameters), and reading and writing sample data will work with any supported 
    9.11 +audio file format. 
    10.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    10.2 +++ b/autoconf/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    10.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
    10.4 +Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to 
    10.5 +automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt 
    10.6 +the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user 
    10.7 +intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a 
    10.8 +template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use,
    10.9 +in the form of M4 macro calls. 
    11.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    11.2 +++ b/babl/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    11.3 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
    11.4 +babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format translation library.
    11.5 +
    11.6 +It allows converting between different methods of storing pixels known as pixel
    11.7 +formats that have different bitdepths and other data representations, color 
    11.8 +models and component permutations. 
    12.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    12.2 +++ b/bash/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    12.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
    12.4 +Bash is a shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system.
    12.5 +Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn 
    12.6 +shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX 
    12.7 +P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements 
    12.8 +over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts 
    12.9 +can be run by Bash without modification.
    13.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    13.2 +++ b/bc/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    13.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
    13.4 +bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to 
    13.5 +C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of 
    13.6 +statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.
    14.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    14.2 +++ b/binutils/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    14.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
    14.4 +The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are:
    14.5 +
    14.6 +    ld - the GNU linker.
    14.7 +    as - the GNU assembler.
    15.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    15.2 +++ b/bison/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    15.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
    15.4 +Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-
    15.5 +free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing 
    15.6 +LALR(1) parser tables.
    16.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    16.2 +++ b/boinc/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    16.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
    16.4 +Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, 
    16.5 +study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific 
    16.6 +research.
    17.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    17.2 +++ b/busybox/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    17.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
    17.4 +BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single 
    17.5 +small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you 
    17.6 +usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox 
    17.7 +generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, 
    17.8 +the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave 
    17.9 +very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete 
   17.10 +environment for any small or embedded system.
    18.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    18.2 +++ b/bzip2/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    18.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
    18.4 +bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It 
    18.5 +typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques
    18.6 +(the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast 
    18.7 +at compression and six times faster at decompression.
    19.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    19.2 +++ b/maxima/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    19.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
    19.4 +Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, 
    19.5 +including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, 
    19.6 +ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and 
    19.7 +sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision 
    19.8 +numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and 
    19.9 +variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in
   19.10 +two and three dimensions.
    20.1 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    20.2 +++ b/slitaz-boot-scripts/description.txt	Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800
    20.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
    20.4 +This package contains all default boot scripts to get SliTaz GNU/Linux up to a 
    20.5 +runable, and more importantly, usable, state.
    20.6 +