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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-25 06:45:29 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2018-01-26 00:09:19 +0100
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gnu: nss-mdns: Improve synopsis and description.
* gnu/packages/avahi.scm (nss-mdns)[synopis, description]: Edit to appease ‘guix lint’ and, I hope, be a bit more clear.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
index 8f87bc40c5..f4d17c5c15 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ DNS-SD (for \"DNS-Based Service Discovery\") protocols.")
;; appropriately.
'(#:configure-flags '("--localstatedir=/var")))
(home-page "https://github.com/lathiat/nss-mdns")
- (synopsis "The mDNS Name Service Switch (NSS) plug-in")
+ (synopsis "Multicast DNS Name Service Switch (@dfn{NSS}) plug-in")
(description
- "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
-of the GNU C Library, providing host name resolution via Multicast DNS (mDNS).
-It allows for name resolution by programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain
-'.local'.")
+ "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the GNU C Library's Name Service Switch
+(@dfn{NSS}) that resolves host names via multicast DNS (@dfn{mDNS}). It is
+most often used in home and other small networks without a local name server,
+to resolve host names in the @samp{.local} top-level domain.")
(license lgpl2.1+)))