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diff --git a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm index 948af65bbd..44651f4511 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/package-management.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/package-management.scm @@ -87,20 +87,12 @@ (base32 "0b5a2ngd9a7z2wnm01wc27rlwb61x854ndadxwmj8v8lrl6j2hxw")))))) (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/guix") - (synopsis "Managing installed software packages and versions") + (synopsis "Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions") (description - "GNU Guix is a purely functional package manager for the GNU system, -and a distribution thereof. - -In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports -transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, -per-user profiles, and garbage collection. - -It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific -languages (EDSLs), to describe how packages are built and composed. - -A user-land free software distribution for GNU/Linux comes as part of Guix. - -Guix is based on the Nix package manager.") + "GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system, and is +also a distribution thereof. It includes a virtual machine image. Besides +the usual package management features, it also supports transactional +upgrades and roll-backs, per-user profiles, and much more. It is based on the +Nix package manager.") (license gpl3+))) |