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Mike Gerwitz |
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[commit-womb] gnumaint .cvsignore Makefile mkspotlight rec/pk... |
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Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:14:10 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /sources/womb
Module name: gnumaint
Changes by: Mike Gerwitz <mikegerwitz> 18/06/14 23:14:10
Modified files:
. : .cvsignore Makefile mkspotlight
Added files:
rec : pkgblurbs2txt.awk
Removed files:
. : pkgblurbs.txt
Log message:
pkgblurbs.txt: Remove and replace with build script
Run `make pkgblurbs.txt' to build the old file.
* .cvsignore: Ignore pkgblurbs.txt.
* Makefile (pkgblurbs.txt): New target.
(bhtml, html): Depend on pkgblurbs.txt.
* rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk: New file.
* pkgblurbs.txt: Remove file.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnumaint/.cvsignore?cvsroot=womb&r1=1.13&r2=1.14
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnumaint/Makefile?cvsroot=womb&r1=1.61&r2=1.62
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnumaint/mkspotlight?cvsroot=womb&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnumaint/pkgblurbs.txt?cvsroot=womb&r1=1.101&r2=0
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnumaint/rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk?cvsroot=womb&rev=1.1
Patches:
Index: .cvsignore
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/womb/gnumaint/.cvsignore,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -b -r1.13 -r1.14
--- .cvsignore 24 Jun 2013 18:05:07 -0000 1.13
+++ .cvsignore 15 Jun 2018 03:14:10 -0000 1.14
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
ChangeLog
activity-report.txt
copyright-papers.txt
+pkgblurbs.txt
m.test
msg.*
*.mbox*
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/womb/gnumaint/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.61
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -b -r1.61 -r1.62
--- Makefile 19 Mar 2015 23:51:45 -0000 1.61
+++ Makefile 15 Jun 2018 03:14:10 -0000 1.62
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.61 2015/03/19 23:51:45 karl Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.62 2018/06/15 03:14:10 mikegerwitz Exp $
# Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
# when we want to remake all the .html on the web site,
# $(gw) being the www cvs checkout.
-html-update html:
+html-update html: pkgblurbs.txt
gm generate logos html >$(gw)/graphics/allgnupkgs.html
gm generate manual html >$(gw)/manual/allgnupkgs.html
gm generate packages html >$(gw)/software/allgnupkgs.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
html-diff:
-cd $(gw) && cvs diff -u0 */allgnupkgs.html server/home-pkgblurbs.html
-pkg-blurbs-html bhtml:
+pkg-blurbs-html bhtml: pkgblurbs.txt
gm generate blurbs html | tee ~/tmp/x.html
test-genlhtml ghtml: # result included from www.gnu.org/graphics/manual.html
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
gm generate email bypackage # should give error, missing args
test-genemail-help:
gm generate email bypackage -h
-fsfpackages.txt: copyright.list gm gm-read.pl gm-util.pl
+fsfpackages.txt: copyright.list gm gm-read.pl gm-util.pl pkgblurbs.txt
gm list copyrightfsf >$@
test-listfsf fsf:
@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@
maintfileupgrade m.src | dos2unix | tee m.new
#
+# Old txt files, now maintained as recfiles
+pkgblurbs.txt: rec/pkgblurbs.rec
+ awk -f rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk < $< > $@
+
+#
# From the good old days when the Directory was in CVS.
#
#gnuorg = $(go)
Index: mkspotlight
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/womb/gnumaint/mkspotlight,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- mkspotlight 30 May 2018 05:35:44 -0000 1.4
+++ mkspotlight 15 Jun 2018 03:14:10 -0000 1.5
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
# prepend some useful text (from Brandon's original email); hopefully a
# lot of this will be automated as time goes on
- cat - "$releases_out" > "$releases_out.tmp" <<EOF
+ cat - "$releases_out" | ignore-releases > "$releases_out.tmp" <<EOF
# From Brandon:
# > Edit releases-this-month.gnu. Normally this entails removing
# > multiple releases of the same package (just keep the latest one),
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@
}
+ignore-releases()
+{
+ grep -v ^gnurl
+}
+
+
make-markdown()
{
make -f "$makefile" markdown
@@ -97,8 +103,7 @@
# some common replacements, to be added to over time (maybe extract into
# its own file for maintenance)
- sed -i 's#software/gnurl#software/gnunet#;
- s#software/tack#software/ncurses#;
+ sed -i 's#software/tack#software/ncurses#;
s#software/gnuhealth-client#software/health#' \
"$md"
Index: rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk
===================================================================
RCS file: rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk
diff -N rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ rec/pkgblurbs2txt.awk 15 Jun 2018 03:14:10 -0000 1.1
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# pkgblurbs.rec to old pkgblurbs.txt
+# $Id: pkgblurbs2txt.awk,v 1.1 2018/06/15 03:14:10 mikegerwitz Exp $
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2018 Mike Gerwitz
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# This script converts the pkgblurbs.rec recfile into the old txt format
+# that used to be committed directly to the repository.
+
+BEGIN {
+ print "# Public domain."
+ print "#"
+ print "# This source code for this file is maintained in GNU womb:"
+ print "# http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumaint/?root=womb";
+ print "#"
+ print "# This file specifies a short blurb for each GNU package. These are"
+ print "# used by www.gnu.org, GSRC, and Guix."
+ print "#"
+ print "# THIS FILE IS NOW GENERATED FROM rec/pkgblurbs.rec;"
+ print "# DO NOT MODIFY DIRECTLY!"
+ print ""
+}
+
+# essentially just omits ^id: and %rec headers
+/^package:/,/^$/ { print }
+
+END {
+ print "# Local Variables:"
+ print "# compile-command: \"make pkgblurbs.txt\""
+ print "# End:"
+}
Index: pkgblurbs.txt
===================================================================
RCS file: pkgblurbs.txt
diff -N pkgblurbs.txt
--- pkgblurbs.txt 15 Jun 2018 02:16:28 -0000 1.101
+++ /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
@@ -1,2425 +0,0 @@
-# $Id: pkgblurbs.txt,v 1.101 2018/06/15 02:16:28 mikegerwitz Exp $
-# Public domain.
-#
-# This file is maintained in the CVS repository of GNU womb,
-# http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumaint/?root=womb
-#
-# This file specifies a short blurb for each GNU package. These are
-# used by www.gnu.org, GSRC, and Guix.
-
-package: 3dldf
-blurb: GNU 3DLDF supports 3D drawing with output to the MetaPost format via
-+ a language similar to Metafont. It is primarily
-+ intended to provide a means of creating 3D content for TeX documents,
-+ but it can also create animations containing text typeset by TeX.
-
-package: 8sync
-blurb: 8sync (pronounced "eight-sync") is an asynchronous programming library
-+ for GNU Guile. It makes use of delimited continuations to avoid a mess of
-+ callbacks, resulting in clean, easy-to-read, non-blocking code.
-
-package: a2ps
-blurb: GNU a2ps converts almost anything to a PostScript file, ready for
-+ printing. It accomplishes this by being able to delegate files to
-+ external handlers, such as Groff and Gzip. It handles as many steps
-+ as is necessary to produce a pretty-printed file. It also includes
-+ some extra abilities for special cases, such as pretty-printing
-+ "--help" output.
-
-package: acct
-blurb: GNU acct provides a means for system administrators to determine
-+ system usage patterns. It provides information on, for example,
-+ connections, programs executed, and system resources used.
-
-package: acm
-blurb: GNU ACM is a flight simulator in which players can compete in aerial
-+ combat from different computers, piloting well-equipped jet aircraft
-+ similar to an F-16C Falcon or a MiG-29 Fulcrum.
-
-package: adns
-blurb: GNU adns is a C library that provides easy-to-use DNS resolution
-+ functionality. The library is asynchronous, allowing several
-+ concurrent calls. The package also includes several command-line
-+ utilities for use in scripts.
-
-package: alive
-blurb: GNU Alive sends periodic pings to a server, generally to keep a
-+ connection alive.
-
-package: anubis
-blurb: Anubis is a daemon that sits between the Mail User Agent (MUA) and
-+ the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). When a mail is sent by a user in the
-+ MUA, it is first passed to Anubis, which performs additional
-+ processing to the message before passing it on for delivery by the
-+ MTA. Anubis may, for example, modify the message headers or body, or
-+ encrypt or sign the message.
-
-package: apl
-blurb: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is
-+ an implementation of the ISO standard 13751.
-
-package: archimedes
-blurb: Archimedes is a free package for semiconductor device simulations.
-+ It is intended to assist engineers in designing and simulating
-+ submicron and mesoscopic semiconductor devices based on the Ensemble
-+ Monte Carlo method. It is able to handle a wide variety of materials
-+ and structures, which are described through simple scripts.
-
-package: aris
-blurb: Aris is a program for performing logical proofs. It supports
-+ propositional and predicate logic, as well as Boolean algebra and
-+ arithmetical logic. In addition to its predefined inference and
-+ equivalence rules, Aris also supports references to older proofs.
-+ Its use of standard logical symbols and its natural deduction
-+ interface make it easy to use for beginners.
-
-package: artanis
-blurb: GNU Artanis is a web application framework written in Guile
-+ Scheme. A web application framework (WAF) is a software framework
-+ that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web
-+ applications, web services and web resources. The framework aims to
-+ alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in
-+ web development. Artanis provides several tools for web development:
-+ database access, templating frameworks, session management,
-+ URL-remapping for RESTful, page caching, and more.
-
-package: aspell
-blurb: Aspell is a spell-checker which can be used either as a library or as
-+ a standalone program. Notable features of Aspell include its full
-+ support of documents written in the UTF-8 encoding and its ability to
-+ use multiple dictionaries, including personal ones.
-
-package: auctex
-blurb: AUCTeX is an integrated environment for producing TeX documents in
-+ Emacs. It allows many different standard TeX macros to be inserted
-+ with simple keystrokes or menu selection. It offers an interface to
-+ external programs, enabling you to compile or view your documents
-+ from within Emacs. AUCTeX also features the ability to place inline
-+ previews of complex TeX statements such as mathematical formulae.
-
-package: autoconf
-blurb: Autoconf offers the developer a robust set of M4 macros which expand
-+ into shell code to test the features of Unix-like systems and to
-+ adapt automatically their software package to these systems. The
-+ resulting shell scripts are self-contained and portable, freeing the
-+ user from needing to know anything about Autoconf or M4.
-
-package: autoconf-archive
-blurb: Autoconf Archive is a collection of over 450 new macros for Autoconf,
-+ greatly expanding the domain of its functionality. These macros have
-+ been contributed as free software by the community.
-
-package: autogen
-blurb: AutoGen is a program to ease the maintenance of programs that contain
-+ large amounts of repetitive text. It automates the construction of
-+ these sections of the code, simplifying the task of keeping the
-+ text in sync. It also includes an
-+ add-on package called AutoOpts, which is specialized for the
-+ maintenance and documentation of program options.
-
-package: automake
-blurb: Automake the part of the GNU build system for producing
-+ standards-compliant Makefiles. Build requirements are entered in an
-+ intuitive
-+ format and then Automake works with Autoconf to produce a robust
-+ Makefile, simplifying the entire process for the developer.
-
-package: avl
-blurb: libavl provides a large collection of binary search tree and balanced
-+ tree routines for C. These trees offer at least O(log n) performance
-+ for usually costly operations such as searching, inserting or
-+ deleting items from a data structure.
-
-package: ballandpaddle
-blurb: Ball and Paddle is a classic arcade game in which you use a paddle at
-+ the bottom of the screen to bounce a ball against bricks in the upper
-+ region, eliminating the bricks as they are hit. As a novel twist,
-+ events and attributes of all the objects (bricks, ball, etc.) may be
-+ scripted with GNU Guile.
-
-package: barcode
-blurb: GNU Barcode is a flexible tool to produce printed barcodes from text
-+ strings. It supports a variety of encoding standards and sizing
-+ measurements. Barcodes can be output in PostScript or Encapsulated
-+ PostScript formats.
-
-package: bash
-blurb: Bash is the shell, or command-line interpreter, of the GNU system. It
-+ is compatible with the Bourne Shell, but it also integrates useful
-+ features from the Korn Shell and the C Shell and new improvements of
-+ its own. It allows command-line editing, unlimited command history,
-+ shell functions and aliases, and job control while still allowing
-+ most sh scripts to be run without modification.
-
-package: bayonne
-blurb: Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU Telephony project. It
-+ offers a scalable environment for the development and deployment of
-+ telephony solutions, with a focus on SIP.
-
-package: bc
-blurb: bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. It
-+ includes an interactive environment for evaluating mathematical
-+ statements. Its syntax is similar to that of C, so basic usage is
-+ familiar. It also includes "dc", a reverse-polish calculator.
-
-package: bfd
-blurb: redirect binutils
-
-package: binutils
-blurb: GNU Binutils is a collection of tools for working with binary files.
-+ Perhaps the most notable are "ld", a linker, and "as", an assembler.
-+ Other tools include programs to display binary profiling
-+ information, list the strings in a binary file,
-+ and utilities for working with archives. The "bfd" library for
-+ working with executable and object formats is also included.
-
-package: bison
-blurb: GNU Bison is a general-purpose parser generator. It can build a
-+ deterministic or generalized LR parser from an annotated,
-+ context-free grammar. It is versatile enough to have many
-+ applications, from parsers for simple tools through complex
-+ programming languages.
-
-package: bool
-blurb: GNU Bool is a utility to perform text searches on files using Boolean
-+ expressions. For example, a search for "hello AND world" would
-+ return a file containing the phrase "Hello, world!". It supports
-+ both AND and OR statements, as well as the NEAR statement to search
-+ for the occurrence of words in close proximity to each other. It
-+ handles context gracefully, accounting for new lines and paragraph
-+ changes. It also has robust support for parsing HTML files.
-
-package: bpel2owfn
-blurb: GNU BPEL2oWFN translates a web service expressed in Web Service Business
-+ Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) into an open Workflow Net
-+ (oWFN). It may additionally convert a BPEL4Chor choreography to a
-+ Petri Net model. Properties of Petri Nets may be analyzed
-+ efficiently, due to the use of static analysis to make the models
-+ compact. Control and data flow analysis, as well as basic checks for
-+ deadlocks and other such properties are available.
-
-package: bazaar
-blurb: GNU Bazaar is a version control system that allows
-+ you to record changes
-+ to project files over time.
-+ It supports both a distributed workflow
-+ as well as the classic centralized workflow.
-
-package: c-graph
-blurb: GNU C-Graph is a tool for demonstrating the theory of convolution.
Thus,
-+ it can serve as an excellent aid to students of signal and systems
-+ theory in visualizing the convolution process. Rather than forcing
-+ the student to write code, the program offers an intuitive interface
-+ with interactive dialogs to guide them.
-
-package: ccaudio
-blurb: GNU ccAudio2 is a portable C++ class for working with audio data from
-+ disk. The classes are both endian and content aware; rather than
-+ treating audio as binary data, this library treats it as an sequence
-+ of samples. It can also handle metadata information. ccAudio2
-+ supports sun audio, raw samples, and RIFF encoded audio data.
-
-package: ccd2cue
-blurb: GNU ccd2cue is a preprocessor for CD burning software that allows
-+ the conversion of the proprietary CCD format to the CUE format, which
-+ is well-supported by free software. These files are commonly
-+ distributed with CD images and are used to describe how tracks are
-+ laid out on the image.
-
-package: ccide
-blurb: GNU Ccide is a decision table code generator for the C language. This
-+ helps to avoid unmanageable and error-prone chains of nested if-else
-+ statements. Instead, decision tables are entered in an intuitive and
-+ easy-to-read format, which is then expanded into portable C code.
-
-package: ccrtp
-blurb: GNU ccRTP is an implementation of RTP, the real-time transport protocol
-+ from the IETF. It is suitable both for high capacity servers and
-+ personal client applications. It is flexible in its design, allowing
-+ it to function as a framework for the framework, rather than just
-+ being a packet-manipulation library.
-
-package: ccscript
-blurb: GNU ccScript3 is a library to add a virtual machine execution system for
-+ use with/as a scripting or assembler language for real-time,
-+ state-transition driven systems.
-
-package: cfengine
-blurb: Cfengine, or the configuration engine, is an agent/software robot to
-+ configure and administer large computer networks. It also functions
-+ as a high-level language for designing expert systems to perform such
-+ tasks. It consists of a primitive intelligence for defining and
-+ automating the configuration and maintenance of the system state.
-
-package: cflow
-blurb: GNU cflow analyzes C source files and produces a graph charting the
-+ control flow of the program. It can output the graph in several
-+ styles and in either the POSIX format or in an extended GNU format.
-+ cflow also includes a major mode for Emacs for examining the
-+ flowcharts that it produces.
-
-package: cgicc
-blurb: GNU cgicc is an ANSI-compliant C++ library for writing CGI applications,
-+ featuring support for FastCGI. The library supports several features,
-+ including handling both GET and POST data, handling a variety of form
-+ data types, and on-the-fly HTML generation.
-
-package: chess
-blurb: GNU Chess is a chess engine. It allows you to compete against the
-+ computer in a game of chess, either through the default terminal
-+ interface or via an external visual interface such as GNU XBoard.
-
-package: cim
-blurb: Cim is the GNU compiler for Simula, the first object-oriented
-+ programming language.
-
-package: classpath
-blurb: GNU Classpath provides essential libraries for Java virtual machines
-+ and compilers. It is compatible with a large percentage of the
-+ language API specifications and provides a wide array of
-+ functionality.
-
-package: classpathx
-blurb: null (inactive, mostly merged into classpath)
-
-package: clisp
-blurb: GNU CLISP is an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. Common Lisp is a
-+ high-level, object-oriented functional programming language. CLISP
-+ includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, and much more.
-
-package: combine
-blurb: GNU combine works to merge files based on a common key in a hash table.
-+ It can be seen as similar to, albeit much more powerful than, the
-+ standard "join" utility. Unlike "join", any number of files
-+ may be merged based on the matches found. combine also has other
-+ advanced features, such as date parsing and directory traversal.
-
-package: commoncpp
-blurb: GNU Common C++ is an portable, optimized class framework for
-+ threaded applications, supporting concurrent synchronization,
-+ inter-process communications via sockets, and various methods for data
-+ handling, such as serialization and XML parsing. It includes the uCommon
-+ C++ library, a smaller reimplementation.
-
-package: complexity
-blurb: GNU complexity provides tools for finding procedures that are
-+ convoluted, overly long or otherwise difficult to understand. This
-+ may help in learning or reviewing unfamiliar code or perhaps
-+ highlighting your own code that seemed comprehensible when you wrote it.
-
-package: config
-blurb: The "config.guess" script tries to guess a canonical system triple,
-+ and "config.sub" validates and canonicalizes. These are used as part
-+ of configuration in nearly all GNU packages (and many others).
-
-package: consensus
-blurb: null (container for network work)
-
-package: coreutils
-blurb: GNU Coreutils includes all of the basic command-line tools that are
-+ expected in a POSIX system. These provide the basic file, shell and
-+ text manipulation functions of the GNU system. Most of these tools
-+ offer extended functionality beyond that which is outlined in the
-+ POSIX standard.
-
-package: cpio
-blurb: GNU cpio copies files into or out of cpio or tar archives.
-+ Indeed, many formats are supported, including legacy formats. The
-+ format is determined automatically by the program and is handled
-+ appropriately. Furthermore, the location of the archive is not
-+ important. It can be another file on the drive, a tape, or data on a
-+ pipe.
-
-package: cppi
-blurb: GNU Cppi processes C source code files to properly indent the
-+ preprocessor directives to reflect their nesting. It also performs
-+ other standardizations, such as correcting the number of spaces
-+ between directives and the text following them.
-
-package: cssc
-blurb: GNU CSSC provides a replacement for the legacy Unix source code control
-+ system SCCS. This allows old code still under that system to be
-+ accessed and migrated on modern systems.
-
-package: cursynth
-blurb: GNU cursynth is a polyphonic synthesizer that runs graphically
-+ in the terminal. It is built on a full-featured subtractive synthesis
-+ engine. Notes and parameter changes may be entered via MIDI or the
-+ computer's keyboard.
-
-package: dap
-blurb: GNU Dap is a statistics and graphics package. It can read programs
-+ written for the proprietary statistics system SAS. Its syntax is
-+ similar to, but simpler than C, making performing most tasks
-+ relatively easy while still providing advanced graphical
-+ capabilities.
-
-package: datamash
-blurb: Perform basic numeric, textual and statistical operations on
-+ plain text files. Designed to work within standard pipelines without
-+ additional code.
-
-package: dc
-blurb: redirect bc
-
-package: dia
-blurb: redirect gnome
-
-package: direvent
-blurb: A daemon that monitors directories for events, such as creating,
-+ deleting or modifying files. It can monitor different sets of
-+ directories for different events. When an event is detected, direvent
-+ calls a specified external program with information about the event,
-+ such as the location within the file system where it occurred. Thus,
-+ "direvent" provides an easy way to react immediately if given files
-+ undergo changes, for example, to track changes in important system
-+ configuration files.
-
-package: djgpp
-blurb: null (DOS-only package)
-
-package: dr-geo
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: ddd
-blurb: GNU DDD, the Data Display Debugger, is a graphical front-end for
-+ command-line debuggers. Many back-end debuggers are supported, notably
-+ the GNU debugger, GDB. In addition to usual debugging features
-+ such as viewing the source files, DDD has additional graphical,
-+ interactive features to aid in debugging.
-
-package: ddrescue
-blurb: GNU ddrescue is a fully automated data recovery tool. It copies data
-+ from one file to another, working to rescue data in case of read
-+ errors. The program also includes a tool for manipulating its
-+ log files, which are used to recover data more efficiently by only
-+ reading the necessary blocks.
-
-package: dejagnu
-blurb: DejaGnu is a framework for testing software. In effect, it serves as
-+ a front-end for all tests written for a program. Thus, each program
-+ can have multiple test suites, which are then all managed by a
-+ single harness.
-
-package: denemo
-blurb: GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that provides a convenient
-+ interface to the powerful music engraving program Lilypond. Music
-+ can be typed in using the computer keyboard, played in using a MIDI
-+ keyboard, or even input via a microphone connected to the sound card.
-+ The final product is publication-quality music notation that is
-+ continuously generated in the background while you work.
-
-package: dico
-blurb: GNU Dico implements a flexible dictionary server and client according
-+ to RFC 2229 (DICT Server). It is able to access any database
-+ available, regardless of format, thanks to its modular structure.
-+ New modules may be written in C, Guile or Python. Dico also includes
-+ a command-line client, which may be used to query remote dictionary
-+ databases.
-
-package: diction
-blurb: A package providing two classic Unix commands, style and diction.
-+ Diction is used to identify wordy and commonly misused phrases in a
-+ body of text. Style instead analyzes surface aspects of a written
-+ work, such as sentence length and other readability measures.
-
-package: diffutils
-blurb: GNU Diffutils is a package containing tools for finding the
-+ differences between files. The "diff" command is used to show how two
-+ files differ, while "cmp" shows the offsets and line numbers where they
-+ differ. "diff3" allows you to compare three files. Finally, "sdiff"
-+ offers an interactive means to merge two files.
-
-package: dionysus
-blurb: GNU Dionysus is a convenient system for quickly retrieving the values of
-+ mathematical constants used in science and engineering. Values can
-+ be searched using a simple command-line tool, choosing from three
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-blurb: GNU Dominion is a multi-player world simulation game. In it,
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-+ of competition from the other players. Players must make political,
-+ economical, military and diplomatic decisions in order for their
-+ nations to survive. This game is intended to be played by players all
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-blurb: Ed is a line-oriented text editor: rather than offering an overview
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-+ executed both interactively and via shell scripts. Its method of
-+ command input allows complex tasks to be performed in an automated way.
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-blurb: GNU EDMA is a development environment that combines ideas from both
-+ object-oriented programming and component-based systems. It is used
-+ to build modular, evolving applications as well as reusable
-+ components. EDMA provides a convenient means to build
-+ object-oriented programs in C without requiring C++.
-+ Also, it has a unique component system, unlike other free software
-+ component-based systems which imitate the design of proprietary
-+ counterparts. It includes a graphical wizard, gidfwizard,
-+ a tool for building GNU EDMA Interface
-+ definition files and to create skeleton files necessary to build
-+ EDMA classes, and a graphical class browser, gecb.
-
-package: electric
-blurb: GNU Electric is a CAD program for designing electrical circuits,
-+ handling custom IC layout, schematic drawing and hardware
-+ description language specifications. Several CAD operations are
-+ supported, such as rule checking and simulation. Many different
-+ types of designs can be produced and input or output in a wide
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-
-package: emacs
-blurb: GNU Emacs is an extensible and highly customizable text editor. It
-+ is based on an Emacs Lisp interpreter with extensions for text
-+ editing. Emacs has been extended in essentially all areas of
-+ computing, giving rise to a vast array of packages supporting, e.g.,
-+ email, IRC and XMPP messaging, spreadsheets, remote server editing,
-+ and much more. Emacs includes extensive documentation on all
-+ aspects of the system, from basic editing to writing large Lisp
-+ programs. It has full Unicode support for nearly all human
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-
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-blurb: Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for GNU Emacs. It
-+ supports entering text in a convenient and easy-to-learn format.
-+ Later, your documents may be published in a variety of different
-+ formats, such as HTML, LaTeX or PDF. Muse supports projects
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-blurb: EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It is a small front-end which
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-blurb: GNU Enscript is a program to convert ASCII text files to PostScript,
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-+ printer. It also includes the capability to perform syntax
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-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: fdisk
-blurb: GNU fdisk provides a GNU version of the common disk partitioning tool
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-package: ferret
-blurb: GNU Ferret is a graphical data modeler for the Entity/Relationship
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-blurb: Findutils supplies the basic file directory searching utilities of
-+ the GNU system. It consists of two primary searching utilities:
-+ "find" recursively searches for files in a directory according to
-+ given criteria and "locate" lists files in a database that match a
-+ query. Two auxiliary tools are included: "updatedb" updates the file
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-blurb: GNU FisicaLab is an educational application for solving physics
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-+ concepts, leaving aside the mathematical details.
-
-package: foliot
-blurb: GNU Foliot is an application for keeping track of time spent working
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-
-package: fontopia
-blurb: Fontopia is an easy-to-use, text-based, console font editor. It's used
-+ to edit the fonts that GNU/Linux uses to display text on text-based
terminals.
-+ Fontopia works on both PSF 1 & 2, BDF, Code Paged (CP) fonts, and Raw font
-+ files. It provides a user-friendly, easy-to-use glyph editor and it can
-+ easily change font metrics (e.g. length, width, and height) and convert
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-
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-blurb: GNU Fontutils is a collection of programs for handling fonts.
-+ Bitmaps can be extracted from scanned images of characters, edited,
-+ and converted into outline fonts. In general, Fontutils supports the
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-+ PostScript Type 1 fonts.
-
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-blurb: GNU FreeDink is a free and portable re-implementation of the engine
-+ for the role-playing game Dink Smallwood. It supports not only the
-+ original game data files but it also supports user-produced game
-+ mods or "D-Mods". To that extent, it also includes a front-end for
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-blurb: GNU FreeFont is a collection of scalable outline fonts that are
-+ suitable for general computer use and for desktop publishing. A
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-blurb: GNU FreeIPMI is a collection of in-band and out-of-band IPMI software
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-blurb: GNU Freetalk is a command-line Jabber/XMPP chat client. It notably
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-+ navigation of text as well as tab-completion of buddy names, commands
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-blurb: GNU FriBidi is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
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-blurb: G-Golf (Gnome: (Guile Object Library for)) is a library for developing
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-+ GObject Introspection API and higher-level functionality for importing Gnome
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-blurb: GNU Gama is a program for the adjustment of geodetic networks. It is
-+ useful in measurements where Global Positioning System (GPS) is not
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-blurb: GNU garpd broadcasts Gratuitous ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
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-+ specified interfaces at regular intervals. Gratuitous ARP request
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-blurb: Gawk is the GNU implementation of Awk, a specialized programming
-+ language for the easy manipulation of formatted text, such as tables
-+ of data. Gawk features many extensions beyond the traditional
-+ implementation, including network access, sorting, and large
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-
-package: gbehistun
-blurb: GNU Behistun consists of software and utilities for geological
-+ and geophysical modeling and mapping of internal structures and
-+ dynamics. Like the Behistun Multilingual Inscription, the Behistun
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-blurb: Gcal is a program to calculate and print calendars on the
-+ command-line. Calendars can be printed in 1-month, 3-month or whole-year
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-+ countries, which can be complemented by user-made lists of fixed
-+ dates to make an agenda. Gcal can also calculate astronomical data,
-+ such as the phases of the moon, and supports alternative calendar
-+ formats: Julian, Gregorian, Islamic, Chinese and more.
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-package: gcc
-blurb: GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection. It provides compiler front-ends
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-blurb: GCIDE is a free dictionary based on a combination of sources. It can
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-package: gcl
-blurb: GCL is an implementation of the Common Lisp language. It features
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-blurb: GCompris is a suite of educational software for children. It
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-blurb: GDB is the GNU debugger. With it, you can monitor what a program is
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-+ allows you to specify the runtime conditions, to define breakpoints,
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-blurb: GDBM is a library for manipulating hashed databases. It is used to
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-blurb: GNU Gengen is a program to generate text-generators, i.e., functions
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-+ gengen to create the text-generator. At runtime, the variable text is
-+ defined by the rest of the program and passed to the text-generator,
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-blurb: GNU Gengetopt is a program to generate a C/C++ function for parsing
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-+ that accept many options. The options parsed by the generated
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-blurb: GNU Gettext is a package providing a framework
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-blurb: Gforth is a fast and portable implementation of the ANSI Forth
-+ language. It includes an editing mode for Emacs and an interpreter
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-blurb: GNU Gradebook is an application for teachers for tracking student
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-blurb: Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF
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-+ graphics capabilities of the PostScript language. It supports a wide
-+ variety of output file formats and printers.
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-blurb: The GNU Image-Finding Tool (GIFT) is a Content Based Image Retrieval
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-+ collection, enabling you to query by example. Also, a tool to index
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-blurb: GIMP is an application for image manipulation tasks such as photo
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-blurb: GNU glean is a modular system for self-study, considerably more
-+ intricate than standard flash cards method. It is very
-+ customizable, allowing the user to define subjects of interest and
-+ activities to study them. For now, it has a text-based interface
-+ inside the Guile REPL and an experimental web interface.
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-blurb: GNU gleem is a library for Java and C++ offering a set of 3D
-+ widgets that support direct user interaction with a 3D scene. These
-+ widgets are used to translate along a line, translate in a plane, and
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-blurb: GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that functions in the same
way
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-+ shells and web browsers. The resulting tags are useful for quickly
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-blurb: GLPK is a C library for solving large-scale linear programming (LP),
-+ mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It
-+ supports the GNU MathProg modeling language, a subset of the AMPL
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-blurb: GMediaServer is a UPnP-compatible media server. It serves audio and
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-blurb: GMP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on
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-+ precision is only limited by the available memory. The library is
-+ highly optimized, with a design focus on execution speed. It is
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-blurb: GNOME is the graphical desktop for GNU. It includes a wide
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-blurb: This is a reference manual for the C programming language, as
-+ implemented by the GNU C Compiler (gcc). As a reference, it is not
-+ intended to be a tutorial of the language. Rather, it outlines all
-+ of the constructs of the language. Library functions are not
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-blurb: This program is designed to make it easy to reconstruct difficult
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-package: gnuastro
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-package: gnubatch
-blurb: GNUbatch is an advanced batch scheduling system. It executes
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-+ interdependencies. The jobs may be completed on any number of
-+ processors shared across a network. Full access-control of the jobs
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-blurb: The GNU backgammon application can be used for playing, analyzing
-+ and teaching the game. It has an advanced evaluation engine based on
-+ artificial neural networks suitable for both beginners and advanced
-+ players. In addition to a command-line interface, it also features an
-+ attractive, 3D representation of the playing board.
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-blurb: GNUbiff is a program that checks for mail and notifies you when new
-+ messages arrive. It supports multiple mailboxes which may be
-+ accessed via a variety of methods such as POP3, IMAP, MH and
-+ mailfiles. Graphical notifications are provided with GTK and
-+ complete integration with GNOME is supported.
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-package: gnubik
-blurb: GNUbik is a puzzle game in which you must manipulate a cube to make
-+ each of its faces have a uniform color. The game is customizable,
-+ allowing you to set the size of the cube (the default is 3x3) or to
-+ change the colors. You may even apply photos to the faces instead of
-+ colors. The game is scriptable with Guile.
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-package: gnucap
-blurb: GNUcap is a circuit analysis package. It offers a general purpose
-+ circuit simulator and can perform DC and transient analyses, fourier
-+ analysis and AC analysis. The engine is designed to do true
-+ mixed-mode simulation.
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-blurb: GnuCash is personal and professional financial-accounting
-+ software. It can be used to track bank accounts, stocks, income and
-+ expenses, based on the double-entry accounting practice. It includes
-+ support for QIF/OFX/HBCI import and transaction matching. It also
-+ automates several tasks, such as financial calculations or scheduled
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-package: gnucobol
-blurb: null (stale)
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-package: gnucomm
-blurb: redirect sipwitch
-
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-blurb: GnuDOS is a set of programs designed to help new users of the GNU
-+ system in growing accustomed to the system, particularly users who
-+ might be coming from a DOS background. It consists of a file manager,
-+ a text editor and a form designer for the console as well as a core
-+ library for building similar utilities.
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-blurb: GNU Enterprise supports enterprise planning. It includes an
-+ application server, common development library, an IDE for designing
-+ data forms, forms interface, navigator and menu system, and data
-+ reporting system.
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-package: gnufm
-blurb: null (stale)
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-package: gnugo
-blurb: GNU Go is a program that plays the game of Go, in which players place
-+ stones on a grid to form territory or capture other stones. While it
-+ can be played directly from the terminal, rendered in ASCII
-+ characters, it is also possible to play GNU Go with 3rd party
-+ graphical interfaces or even in Emacs. It supports the standard
-+ game storage format (SGF, Smart Game Format) and inter-process
-+ communication format (GMP, Go Modem Protocol).
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-blurb: The GNU Interactive Tools are a set of lightweight, interactive
-+ command-line tools. They include an extensible, orthodox (two-pane)
-+ file manager, an ASCII/hex file viewer, and a process viewer/killer.
-+ The package also includes some related utilities and scripts, such as
-+ a tool to decompress any type of archive file. All the
-+ tools can be enhanced and extended through their configuration files
-+ to perform new commands.
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-blurb: null (container for Japanese translations)
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-package: gnujump
-blurb: GNUjump is a simple, yet addictive game in which you must jump from
-+ platform to platform to avoid falling, while the platforms drop at
-+ faster rates the higher you go. The game features multiplayer,
-+ unlimited FPS, smooth floor falling, themeable graphics and sounds,
-+ and replays.
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-package: gnukart
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: gnulib
-blurb: Gnulib is a central location for common infrastructure needed by
-+ GNU packages. It provides a wide variety of functionality, e.g.,
-+ portability across many systems, working with Unicode strings,
-+ cryptographic computation, and much more. The code is intended to be
-+ shared at the level of source files, rather than being a standalone
-+ library that is distributed, built, and installed. The included
-+ "gnulib-tool" script helps with using Gnulib code in other packages.
-+ Gnulib also includes copies of licensing and maintenance-related
-+ files, for convenience.
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-blurb: redirect hurd
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-package: gnumed
-blurb: GNUmed is Electronic Medical Record software, supporting
-+ paperless medical practices. Several interface languages are supported.
-
-package: gnumeric
-blurb: GNUmeric is a GNU spreadsheet application, running under
-+ GNOME. It is interoperable with other spreadsheet applications. It
-+ has a vast array of features beyond typical spreadsheet functionality,
-+ such as support for linear and non-linear solvers, statistical
-+ analysis, and telecommunication engineering.
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-package: gnump3d
-blurb: GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s and OGG vorbis audio files,
-+ movies, and other media formats. It is small and self-contained,
-+ presenting a simple, themeable HTML interface. The audio files can
-+ then be played in any player that supports streaming over HTTP.
-
-package: gnun
-blurb: GNUnited Nations is a build system for translating the web site at
-+ www.gnu.org. It works via template files, which allow changes to be
-+ merged into individual translations of a page, from which the final
-+ HTML is generated. In effect, this helps to keep all translations of
-+ a page up-to-date.
-
-package: gnunet
-blurb: GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. The
-+ high-level goal is to provide a strong foundation of free software for a
-+ global, distributed network that provides security and privacy. GNUnet
-+ in that sense aims to replace the current internet protocol stack. Along
-+ with an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include
-+ all kinds of basic applications for the foundation of a GNU internet.
-
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-blurb: The GNU Privacy Guard is a complete implementation of the OpenPGP
-+ standard. It is used to encrypt and sign data and communication. It
-+ features powerful key management and the ability to access public key
-+ servers. It includes several libraries: libassuan (IPC between GnuPG
-+ components), libgpg-error (centralized GnuPG error values), and libskba
-+ (working with X.509 certificates and CMS data).
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-package: gnupod
-blurb: GNUpod is a collection of scripts for using iPods with GNU/Linux and
-+ other operating systems. It can be used for transferring music and
-+ cover art, searching files, removing files, editing tags,
-+ creating playlists and more.
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-package: gnuprologjava
-blurb: GNU Prolog for Java is an implementation of the ISO Prolog standard
-+ as a Java library (gnu.prolog). Thus, with it you can use Prolog
-+ from within Java programs.
-
-package: gnuradio
-blurb: GNU Radio is a toolkit for implementing software radios. Its signal
-+ processing blocks can be combined with low-cost external RF hardware
-+ to create software-defined radios. Without hardware, it can be used
-+ for simulation. Radio applications are primarily written in Python,
-+ with C++ support for performance-critical processing tasks.
-
-package: gnurobots
-blurb: GNU Robots is a game in which you program a robot to explore a world
-+ full of enemies that can hurt it, obstacles and food to be eaten.
-+ The goal of the game is to stay alive and collect prizes. The robot
-+ program conveniently may be written in a plain text file in the
-+ Scheme programming language.
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-package: gnuschool
-blurb: GNUschool is a web application for students, teachers and school
-+ administrators. With it, teachers can create tests for the students
-+ to take online, give feedback and assign grades. School
-+ administrators can use it to monitor student attendance and edit
-+ student information.
-
-package: gnushogi
-blurb: GNU Shogi is a program that plays the game Shogi (Japanese Chess).
-+ It also includes a graphical interface to the game. While similar to
-+ standard chess, this variant is far more complicated.
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-package: gnusound
-blurb: GNUsound is a multitrack sound editor for GNOME 1 and 2. It can read
-+ and write many audio file formats such as WAV, MP3 and FLAC. It can
-+ work with the OSS, ALSA or JACK audio backends. It provides many
-+ different built-in audio processing modules, such as fades in/out,
-+ delay, and filters. GLADSPA plugins may also be used for further
-+ processing.
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-package: gnuspeech
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: gnuspool
-blurb: GNUspool is an advanced print spooling system. In addition to the
-+ functionality of the standard printing system, it provides
-+ post-processing capabilities, form type handling, alignment pages and
-+ other features. It functions transparently on a network, sharing jobs
-+ on any host with printers on any other host. Several user different
-+ interfaces are available.
-
-package: gnustandards
-blurb: null (infrastructure doc)
-
-package: gnustep
-blurb: GNUstep is a fully-functional object-oriented development
-+ environment; a number of user applications are also
-+ included. It closely follows the Cocoa APIs but is
-+ platform-independent.
-
-package: gnutls
-blurb: GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS
-+ and DTLS protocols. It is provided in the form of a C library to support
-+ the protocols, as well as to parse and write X.5009, PKCS 12, OpenPGP
-+ and other required structures.
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-package: gnutrition
-blurb: GNUtrition is a free nutrition analysis software. With it, one can
-+ keep track of the nutritional information of food. The software uses
-+ the Nutrient Database of Standard Reference of the US Department of
-+ Agriculture as a source of food nutrient information.
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-blurb: Goptical is a library for optical design and simulation in C++. It
-+ provides model classes for optical components, surfaces and
-+ materials. With it, one can simulate building an optical system by
-+ creating and placing optical components in a 3d space, and visualize light
-+ propagating through the system.
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-blurb: redirect gnustep
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-package: gpaint
-blurb: GNU Paint is a simple, easy-to-use paint program for the GNOME
-+ environment. It supports drawing freehand as well as basic shapes
-+ and text. It features cut-and-paste for irregular regions or
-+ polygons.
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-blurb: gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of
-+ strings, it produces a hash function and hash table in C or C++ code.
-+ That the hash function is perfect means that no collisions can exist
-+ and that look-ups can be made by single string comparisons.
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-blurb: GNU Prolog is a standards-compliant Prolog compiler with constraint
-+ solving over finite domains. It accepts Prolog+ constraint programs
-+ and produces a compiled, native binary which can function in a
-+ stand-alone manner. It also features an interactive interpreter.
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-blurb: phpGrabComics is a program that fetches and saves comic strips from
-+ the web. It features both a server, which can download strips from
-+ different sources, and ports, tiny applications which get the list of
-+ available comics from the server.
-
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-blurb: GNU Greg is a framework for testing programs and libraries. It provides
-+ a single front-end for all tests of a package as well as a simple
-+ framework for writing the tests. It is loaded as a Guile module into
-+ any software with an embedded Guile interpreter. It also provides a
-+ compiled module that may be dynamically linked into Guile to permit
-+ testing external programs.
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-package: grep
-blurb: grep is a tool for finding text inside files. Text is found by
-+ matching a pattern provided by the user in one or many files. The
-+ pattern may be provided as a basic or extended regular expression, or
-+ as fixed strings. By default, the matching text is simply printed to
-+ the screen, however the output can be greatly customized to include,
-+ for example, line numbers. GNU grep offers many extensions over the
-+ standard utility, including, for example, recursive directory
-+ searching.
-
-package: gretl
-blurb: GNU Gretl is a package for performing statistical computations for
-+ econometrics. It consists of both a command-line client and a
-+ graphical client. It features a variety of estimators such as
-+ least-squares and maximum likelihood; several time series methods such
-+ as ARIMA and GARCH; limited dependent variables such as logit,
-+ probit and tobit; and a powerful scripting language. It can output
-+ models as LaTeX files. It also may be linked to
-+ GNU R and GNU Octave for further data analysis.
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-blurb: Groff is a typesetting package that reads plain text and produces
-+ formatted output based on formatting commands contained within the
-+ text. It is usually the formatter of "man" documentation pages.
-
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-blurb: GRUB is a multiboot bootloader. It is used for initially loading
-+ the kernel of an operating system and then transferring control to
-+ it. The kernel then goes on to load the rest of the operating system.
-+ As a multiboot bootloader, GRUB handles the presence of multiple
-+ operating systems installed on the same computer; upon booting the
-+ computer, the user is presented with a menu to select one of the
-+ installed operating systems.
-
-package: gsasl
-blurb: GNU SASL is an implementation of the Simple Authentication and
-+ Security Layer framework. On network servers such as IMAP or SMTP
-+ servers, SASL is used to handle client/server authentication. This
-+ package contains both a library and a command-line tool to access the
-+ library.
-
-package: gsegrafix
-blurb: GSEGrafix is an application which produces high-quality graphical
-+ plots for science and engineering. Plots are specified via simple
-+ ASCII parameter files and data files and are presented in an
-+ anti-aliased GNOME canvas. The program supports rectangular
-+ two-dimensional plots, histograms, polar-axis plots and three-dimensional
-+ plots. Plots can be printed or saved to BMP, JPEG or PNG image
-+ formats.
-
-package: gsl
-blurb: The GNU Scientific Library is a library for numerical analysis in C
-+ and C++. It includes a wide range of mathematical routines, with
-+ over 1000 functions in total. Subject areas covered by the library
-+ include: differential equations, linear algebra, Fast Fourier
-+ Transforms and random numbers.
-
-package: gslip
-blurb: GNU Slip is a functional extension of the capabilities provided
-+ in the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) list and queue containers,
-+ though SLIP is not a replacement for the STL containers. SLIP data
-+ cells can be used in application-specific computations, among other
-+ enhancements.
-
-package: gsrc
-blurb: GSRC supports installing the latest releases of GNU packages on
-+ an existing system. New versions are installed in a separate
-+ place so as not to interfere with the system versions. The goal is to
-+ make it easier to work with the original, upstream, GNU sources, and
-+ perhaps help with development and testing.
-
-package: gss
-blurb: The GNU Generic Security Service provides a free implementation of
-+ the GSS-API specification. It provides a generic application
-+ programming interface for programs to access security services.
-+ Security services present a generic, GSS interface, with which the
-+ calling application interacts via this library, freeing the
-+ application developer from needing to know about the underlying
-+ security implementation.
-
-package: gtick
-blurb: GTick is a metronome application. It supports different meters, such
-+ as 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, etc. It also supports a wide range of speeds, from
-+ 10 to 1000 BPM. It provides a GTK+-based user interface and it can
-+ use both OSS and ALSA as the audio back-end.
-
-package: gtk+
-blurb: redirect gnome
-
-package: gtypist
-blurb: GNU Typist is a universal typing tutor. It can be used to learn and
-+ practice touch-typing. Several tutorials are included; in addition
-+ to tutorials for the standard QWERTY layout, there are also tutorials
-+ for the alternative layouts Dvorak and Colemak, as well as for the
-+ numpad. Tutorials are primarily in English, however some in other
-+ languages are provided.
-
-package: guile
-blurb: Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the
-+ official extension language of the GNU system. It is an
-+ implementation of the Scheme language which can be easily embedded
-+ in other applications to provide a convenient means of extending the
-+ functionality of the application without requiring the source code to
-+ be rewritten.
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-package: guile-cv
-blurb: null (newpkg 20170421)
-
-package: guile-dbi
-blurb: guile-dbi is a library for Guile that provides a convenient interface
-+ to SQL databases. Database programming with guile-dbi is generic in
-+ that the same programming interface is presented regardless of which
-+ database system is used. It currently supports MySQL, Postgres and
-+ SQLite3.
-
-package: guile-opengl
-blurb: Guile-OpenGL is a library for Guile that provides bindings to the
-+ OpenGL graphics API.
-
-package: guile-gnome
-blurb: Includes guile-clutter, guile-gnome-gstreamer,
-+ guile-gnome-platform (GNOME developer libraries), and guile-gtksourceview.
-
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-blurb: guile-ncurses provides Guile language bindings for the ncurses library.
-
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-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: guile-sdl
-blurb: Guile-SDL is a set of bindings to the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL).
-+ With them, Guile programmers can have easy access to graphics, sound
-+ and device input (keyboards, joysticks, mice, etc.).
-
-package: guix
-blurb: 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.
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-package: gurgle
-blurb: GURGLE produces database report listings from record and field
-+ information from a file. It uses the report to produce
-+ (La)TeX-formatted output, plain ASCII text, troff, PostScript, HTML, XML,
-+ or any other ASCII-based output format. It may be used for producing
-+ large bodies of text where small parts of the text are substituted
-+ with information from the database. GURGLE supports GNUSQL,
-+ PostgreSQL, MySQL and CA-Ingres databases.
-
-package: gv
-blurb: GNU GV is a graphical user interface to the Ghostscript interpreter.
-+ With it, one can view and navigate through PostScript and PDF
-+ documents in X Windows.
-
-package: gvpe
-blurb: The GNU Virtual Private Ethernet creates a virtual network
-+ with multiple nodes using a variety of transport protocols. It works
-+ by creating encrypted host-to-host tunnels between multiple
-+ endpoints.
-
-package: gwl
-blurb: GWL is a workflow language that extends Guix's declarative language
-+ for package management to automate execution of programs. Additionally,
-+ GWL can use Grid Engine to offload program execution.
-
-package: gxmessage
-blurb: GNU gxmessage is a program that pops up dialog windows, which display a
-+ message to the user and waits for their action. The program then
-+ exits with an exit code corresponding to the response.
-
-package: gzip
-blurb: GNU Gzip provides data compression and decompression utilities;
-+ the typical extension is ".gz". Unlike the "zip" format, it
-+ compresses a single file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction
-+ with "tar", resulting in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", etc.
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-package: halifax
-blurb: HaliFAX supports sending and viewing faxes, including
-+ a wrapper around the "lpr" command.
-
-package: health
-blurb: GNU Health is a free medical software system, including support
-+ for electronic medical records (EMR), a hospital information system
-+ (HIS), and health information system. It supports both Spanish and
-+ English interfaces. It has been adopted by the United Nations
-+ University for implementation and training, and several hospitals and
-+ health ministries around the world.
-
-package: hello
-blurb: GNU Hello prints the message "Hello, world!" and then exits. It
-+ serves as an example of standard GNU coding practices. As such, it
-+ supports command-line arguments, multiple languages, and so on.
-
-package: help2man
-blurb: GNU help2man is a program that converts the output of standard "--help"
-+ and "--version" command-line arguments into a manual page
-+ automatically.
-
-package: hp2xx
-blurb: GNU hp2xx converts vector graphics specified in the HP-GL plotter
-+ language into a variety of graphical formats, both vector- and
-+ raster-based, including EPS, PCX, IMG, and formats intended for use
-+ within TeX documents.
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-package: html-info
-blurb: null (does not exist yet)
-
-package: httptunnel
-blurb: GNU httptunnel creates a bidirectional data path tunneled in HTTP
-+ requests. This allows users behind firewalls to send and receive
-+ data that would otherwise be blocked, such as telnet or ssh
-+ connections.
-
-package: hurd
-blurb: The Hurd is the kernel for the GNU system, a replacement and
-+ augmentation of standard Unix kernels. It is a collection of
-+ protocols for system interaction (file systems, networks,
-+ authentication), and servers implementing them. Subprojects include Mach,
-+ the microkernel on which the Hurd is based, which provides a basic
-+ inter-process communication mechanism, and MIG, an interface generator
-+ for Mach.
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-package: hyperbole
-blurb: Hyperbole is a programmable information and hypertext system for
-+ GNU Emacs. It allows hypertext to be embedded within documents, mail
-+ messages and news articles. This permits mouse-based control of
-+ the displayed information.
-
-package: icecat
-blurb: IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. It is entirely
-+ free software, which does not recommend non-free plugins and addons.
-+ It also features built-in privacy-protecting features.
-
-package: idutils
-blurb: The GNU idutils package includes tools to create an index of
-+ textual tokens used in a list of file names and then to query that
-+ index. Thus, it allows the user to, for example, find all the uses of
-+ a particular function in a large programming project. In addition to
-+ handling textual tokens, it can also handle numeric constants and the
-+ contents of character strings.
-
-package: ignuit
-blurb: Ignuit is a tool for aiding in the memorization of new information
-+ based on the Leitner flashcard system. In this system, new cards are
-+ studied with decreasing frequency as they grow older, unless you
-+ encounter difficulty memorizing them, after which you encounter them
-+ more often. Cards can include embedded audio, images and
-+ mathematical formulae and a card collection can be exported to
-+ several formats.
-
-package: indent
-blurb: Indent is a program that makes source code easier to read by
-+ reformatting it in a consistent style. It can change the style to
-+ one of several different styles such as GNU, BSD or K&R. It has some
-+ flexibility to deal with incomplete or malformed syntax. GNU indent
-+ offers several extensions over the standard utility.
-
-package: inetutils
-blurb: Inetutils is a collection of common network programs, such as an ftp
-+ client and server, a telnet client and server, and an rsh client and
-+ server.
-
-package: inklingreader
-blurb: GNU InklingReader is a package to support the
-+ Wacom Inkling device, including data conversion to various free formats,
-+ basic editing features, and an Inkscape plugin.
-
-package: intlfonts
-blurb: GNU intlfonts contains free X11 fonts in the BDF and TrueType formats.
-+ They notably cover a large number of characters from different
-+ writing systems: European, Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ethiopic
-+ and others.
-
-package: jacal
-blurb: GNU JACAL is an interactive symbolic mathematics program based on
-+ Scheme. It manipulate and simplify a range of mathematical
-+ expressions such as equations, scalars, vectors, and matrices.
-
-package: java-getopt
-blurb: java-getopt provides a Java port of the GNU getopt function from
-+ glibc. It supports parsing both long and short command-line
-+ arguments in a flexible manner, which is completely compatible with
-+ the C version.
-
-package: jtw
-blurb: GNU Java Training wheels provides a less steep learning curve
-+ for learning to program in Java. The system is powered by
-+ a preprocessor that adds features to Java such as a superfor
-+ macro and a file inclusion system much like the C language's
-+ preprocessor.
-
-package: jel
-blurb: GNU JEL is a library that lets a program accept user-defined expressions
-+ to be entered and evaluated at runtime. In fact, the expressions are
-+ compiled by JEL to Java bytecode to avoid the performance penalty of
-+ adding interpreted expressions to an already-interpreted language.
-
-package: jwhois
-blurb: GNU jwhois is a client for the WHOIS protocol, which allows you to query
-+ the owner of a domain name. The program uses an extensible
-+ configuration file to determine the most appropriate server to query
-+ and, upon success displays the result to the user, otherwise it can
-+ optionally redirect the query to another server.
-
-package: kawa
-blurb: GNU Kawa is an implementation of the Scheme programming language that is
-+ built on top of the Java platform. It is thus conveniently
-+ integrated with Java and benefits from this by having a compiler,
-+ optional static typing, and so on. Kawa also serves as a framework for
-+ implementing other programming languages on the Java platform.
-+ Included in Kawa is qexo, a partial implementation of XQuery in Java.
-
-package: kopi
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: leg
-blurb: GNU Leg is a set of libraries for game engines and game development.
-+ In addition to the libraries, it also includes resource editors
-+ designed to make game creation easier. The package is designed to be
-+ generic and modular, supporting many different styles of games.
-
-package: less
-blurb: GNU less is a pager, a program that allows you to view large amounts
-+ of text in page-sized chunks. Unlike traditional pagers, it allows
-+ both backwards and forwards movement through the document. It also
-+ does not have to read the entire input file before starting, so it
-+ starts faster than most text editors.
-
-package: libc
-blurb: The GNU C Library is the standard C library of the GNU system. It
-+ defines the system calls and other basic functionality necessary to
-+ write programs in the C language. It handles low-level functionality
-+ that communicates with the kernel, such as process and file
-+ management, as well as higher-level functionality such as string
-+ manipulation or command-line argument handling.
-
-package: libcdio
-blurb: The GNU Compact Disc Input and Control Library (libcdio) is a library
-+ for CD-ROM and CD image file access. It allows the developer to add
-+ CD access to an application without having to worry about the OS- and
-+ device-dependent properties of CD-ROM or the specific details of CD
-+ image formats. It includes pycdio, a Python interface to libcdio, and
-+ libcdio-paranoia, a library providing jitter-free and
-+ error-free audio extraction from CDs.
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-package: libdbh
-blurb: libdbh provides disk-based hash tables, providing quick lookup of
-+ key-value pairs. While its usage is similar in general to that of
-+ (G)DBM, it has a different design supporting advanced, atypical usage.
-
-package: liberty-eiffel
-blurb: Liberty Eiffel project is the GNU Eiffel Compiler. Eiffel is an
-+ advanced object-oriented programming language that emphasizes the
-+ design and construction of high-quality and reusable software. Liberty
-+ Eiffel is a complete, small and fast Eiffel compiler, including an
-+ Eiffel to C compiler, documentation tools, a pretty printer, a
-+ debugger and various other tools. It also includes a large library of
-+ classes as well as a comprehensive set of wrappers/bindings for
-+ widespread Free-Software libraries.
-
-package: libextractor
-blurb: GNU libextractor is a library for extracting metadata from files. It
-+ supports a very large number of file formats, including audio files,
-+ document files, and archive files. Each file format is implemented
-+ as a plugin, so new formats can be added easily. The package also
-+ contains a command-line tool to extract metadata from a file and
-+ print the results.
-
-package: libffcall
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: libgcrypt
-blurb: Libgcrypt is a general-purpose cryptographic library. It provides
-+ the standard cryptographic building blocks such as symmetric ciphers,
-+ hash algorithms, public key algorithms, large integer functions and
-+ random number generation.
-
-package: libiconv
-blurb: libiconv provides an implementation of the iconv function for systems
-+ that lack it. iconv is used to convert between character encodings
-+ in a program. It supports a wide variety of different encodings.
-
-package: libidn
-blurb: libidn is a library implementing of the Stringprep, Punycode
-+ and IDNA specifications. These are used to encode and decode
-+ internationalized domain names. It includes native C, C# and Java
-+ libraries.
-
-package: libjit
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: libmatheval
-blurb: GNU libmatheval is a library to parse and evaluate symbolic
-+ expressions input by the user as text. It can be loaded from both C
-+ and Fortran. The interpreter is flexible, supporting any number of
-+ variables of arbitrary names, decimal and symbolic constants, basic
-+ unary and binary operators, and elementary mathematical functions.
-+ It can also compute symbolic derivatives and output expressions to
-+ strings.
-
-package: libmicrohttpd
-blurb: GNU libmicrohttpd is a small, embeddable HTTP server implemented as a C
-+ library. It makes it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another
-+ application. The library is fully HTTP 1.1 compliant. It can listen
-+ on multiple ports, supports four different threading models, and
-+ supports IPv6. It also features security features such as basic and
-+ digest authentication and support for SSL3 and TLS.
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-package: libredwg
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: librejs
-blurb: LibreJS is an add-on for GNU Icecat and other Firefox-based browsers.
-+ It detects non-trivial and non-free JavaScript code from being loaded
-+ without your consent when you browse the web. JavaScript code that
-+ is free or trivial is allowed to be loaded.
-
-package: libsigsegv
-blurb: GNU libsigsegv is a library to handle page faults, which occur when a
-+ program tries to access an unavailable region of memory, in user
-+ mode. By catching and handling page faults, the program can
-+ implement pageable virtual memory, stack overflow handlers, and so
-+ on.
-
-package: libtasn1
-blurb: GNU libtasn1 is a library implementing the ASN.1 notation. It is used
-+ for transmitting machine-neutral encodings of data objects in
-+ computer networking, allowing for formal validation of data according
-+ to some specifications.
-
-package: libtool
-blurb: GNU Libtool helps in the creation and use of shared libraries, by
-+ presenting a single consistent, portable interface that hides the
-+ usual complexity of working with shared libraries across platforms.
-
-package: libunistring
-blurb: GNU libunistring is a library providing functions to manipulate Unicode
-+ strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode
-+ standard.
-
-package: libxmi
-blurb: GNU libxmi is a library for rasterizing 2D vector graphics for C and
C++.
-+ It supports drawing 2D primitives into a user-supplied matrix of
-+ pixels. It also supports the specification of sophisticated line
-+ styles such as multi-colored dashed patterns. Filling and texturing
-+ polygons is also supported.
-
-package: lightning
-blurb: GNU Lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at
-+ run-time. Thus, it is useful in creating Just-In-Time compilers. It
-+ abstracts over the target CPU by exposing a standardized RISC
-+ instruction set to the clients.
-
-package: lilypond
-blurb: GNU LilyPond is a music typesetter, which produces high-quality sheet
-+ music. Music is input in a text file containing control sequences
-+ which are interpreted by LilyPond to produce the final document. It
-+ is extendable with Guile.
-
-package: lims
-blurb: GNU LIMS is a laboratory information management system. It is
-+ used for managing a scientific laboratory of any field. It consists
-+ of a set of modules for the Tryton enterprise management framework,
-+ so it is flexible to the specific needs of the laboratory. For
-+ example, the system includes modules for sample management, lab
-+ equipment integration, accounting and stock management.
-
-package: linux-libre
-blurb: GNU Linux-Libre is a free (as in freedom) variant of the Linux kernel.
-+ It has been modified to remove all non-free binary blobs.
-
-package: liquidwar6
-blurb: GNU Liquid War 6 is a fast-paced, unique action game. Each player
-+ controls a blob of liquid with the goal of conquering the entire map.
-+ It has 13 levels by default and over 100 more with a bonus pack; new
-+ levels can be easily created using simple image files.
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-package: lispintro
-blurb: redirect emacs
-
-package: lrzsz
-blurb: GNU lrzsz is a communication package supporting the XMODEM, YMODEM and
-+ ZMODEM file transfer protocols.
-
-package: lsh
-blurb: GNU lsh is a free implementation of the SSH version 2 protocol. It is
-+ used to create a secure line of communication between two computers,
-+ providing shell access to the server system from the client. It
-+ provides both the server daemon and the client application, as well
-+ as tools for manipulating key files.
-
-package: m4
-blurb: GNU M4 is an implementation of the M4 macro language, which features
-+ some extensions over other implementations, some of which are
-+ required by GNU Autoconf. It is used as a macro processor, which
-+ means it processes text, expanding macros as it encounters them. It
-+ also has some built-in functions, for example to run shell commands
-+ or to do arithmetic.
-
-package: macchanger
-blurb: GNU MAC Changer is a utility for viewing and changing MAC addresses
-+ of networking devices. New addresses may be set explicitly or
-+ randomly. They can include MAC addresses of the same or other
-+ hardware vendors or, more generally, MAC addresses of the same
-+ category of hardware.
-
-package: mailman
-blurb: GNU Mailman is software for managing email discussion and mailing
-+ lists. Both users and administrators generally perform their actions
-+ in a web interface, although email and command-line interfaces are
-+ also provided. The system features built-in archiving, automatic
-+ bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, and more.
-
-package: mailutils
-blurb: GNU Mailutils is a collection of programs for managing, viewing
-+ and processing electronic mail. It contains both utilities and server
-+ daemons and all operate in a protocol-agnostic way. The underlying
-+ libraries are also available, simplifying the addition of mail
-+ capabilities to new software.
-
-package: make
-blurb: Make is a program that is used to control the production of
-+ executables or other files from their source files. The process is
-+ controlled from a Makefile, in which the developer specifies how
-+ each file is generated from its source. It has powerful dependency
-+ resolution and the ability to determine when files have to be
-+ regenerated after their sources change. GNU make offers many powerful
-+ extensions over the standard utility.
-
-package: marst
-blurb: GNU MARST is an Algol-to-C translator. The package consists of the
-+ translator itself, a library that contains the necessary Algol 60
-+ procedures, and a converter that converts existing Algol 60 programs
-+ from other representations to the MARST representation.
-
-package: maverik
-blurb: GNU MAVERIK is a development toolkit that supports 3D virtual
-+ environments and interaction with those environments. It sits on top
-+ of a low-level rendering engine that uses OpenGL or Mesa, and
-+ provides mechanisms to render different kinds of objects, to manage
-+ environments and to provide support for 3D interaction.
-
-package: mc
-blurb: GNU Midnight Commander is a command-line file manager laid out in a
-+ common two-pane format. In addition to standard file management
-+ tasks such as copying and moving, Midnight Commander also supports
-+ viewing the contents of RPM package files and other archives and
-+ managing files on other computers via FTP or FISH. It also includes
-+ a powerful text editor for opening text files.
-
-package: mcron
-blurb: GNU Mcron is a complete replacement for Vixie cron. It is used to run
-+ tasks on a schedule, such as every hour or every Monday. Mcron is
-+ written in Guile, so its configuration can be written in Scheme;
-+ the original cron format is also supported.
-
-package: mcsim
-blurb: GNU MCSim is a package to perform simulations. It supports statistical
-+ or deterministic simulation models via Monte Carlo stochastic
-+ simulations or dynamic, ODE-based simulations. It also can do
-+ Bayesian inference through Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations.
-
-package: mdk
-blurb: GNU MDK is the Mix Development Kit, an emulation of the pedagogical
-+ computer MIX and its assembly language MIXAL. MIX has a virtual CPU
-+ with standard features such as registers, memory cells, an overflow
-+ toggle, comparison flags, input-output devices, and a set of binary
-+ instructions. The package includes a compiler, a virtual machine, a
-+ GUI for the virtual machine, and more.
-
-package: mediagoblin
-blurb: GNU MediaGoblin is a free media publishing platform. It runs in a
-+ federalized manner, freeing the user from centralized web services.
-+ It supports pictures, videos and audio.
-
-package: melting
-blurb: GNU MELTING computes the enthalpy, entropy and melting temperature of
-+ helix-coil transitions of a nucleic acid duplex.
-
-package: mempool
-blurb: GNU Mempool is a stand-alone block allocation library.
-
-package: metaexchange
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: metahtml
-blurb: GNU MetaHTML is a server-side programming language designed for the
-+ World Wide Web. It has a syntax that is similar to HTML and Lisp.
-+ It provides a large function library, including support for sockets,
-+ image creation and connections to other programs.
-
-package: metalogic-inference
-blurb: null (newpkg/20170419)
-
-package: mifluz
-blurb: GNU mifluz is a C++ library to store a full-text inverted index. It
-+ stores the occurrences of words in a set of texts in such a way that
-+ they can later be searched. Upon searching for a word, the index
-+ returns the list of documents which contain that word.
-
-package: mig
-blurb: redirect hurd
-
-package: miscfiles
-blurb: GNU Miscfiles is a collection of common data files. They
-+ include, for example, country abbreviations, names and capital cities;
-+ currency abbreviations and names; a Best Current Practices index; a map
-+ of the ASCII character set; a list of three-letter airport codes; and
-+ an English word list.
-
-package: mit-scheme
-blurb: GNU/MIT Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming
-+ language. It provides an interpreter, a compiler and a debugger. It
-+ also features an integrated Emacs-like editor and a large runtime
-+ library.
-
-package: moe
-blurb: GNU Moe is a powerful-but-simple-to-use text editor. It works in a
-+ modeless manner, and features an intuitive set of key-bindings that
-+ assign a degree of severity to each key; for example, key
-+ combinations with the Alt key are for harmless commands like cursor
-+ movements while combinations with the Control key are for commands
-+ that will modify the text. Moe features multiple windows, unlimited
-+ undo/redo, unlimited line length, global search and replace, and
-+ more.
-
-package: motti
-blurb: GNU Motti is a simple multiplayer strategy game played in a terminal.
-+ The objective of the game is to conquer enemy capitals by occupying and
-+ encircling territory.
-
-package: mpc
-blurb: GNU MPC is a C library for performing arithmetic on complex numbers.
-+ It supports arbitrarily high precision and it correctly rounds the
-+ results.
-
-package: mpfr
-blurb: GNU MPFR is a C library for performing multiple-precision,
-+ floating-point computations with correct rounding.
-
-package: mpria
-blurb: GNU MPRIA is a C library for performing rational arithmetic
-+ computations with arbitrarily high precision. It builds on
-+ the GMP library.
-
-package: mtools
-blurb: GNU Mtools is a set of utilities for accessing MS-DOS disks from
-+ a GNU or Unix system. It supports long file names and multiple disk
-+ formats. It also supports some FAT-specific features such as volume
-+ labels and FAT-specific file attributes.
-
-package: nana
-blurb: GNU Nana is a framework for adding assertion checking, logging and
-+ performance measurement to C and C++ programs. Operations can either
-+ be implemented directly in C or by generating debugger commands.
-+ Checking and logging features can be enabled or disabled at compile
-+ or runtime.
-
-package: nano
-blurb: GNU nano is a small and simple text editor for use in a terminal.
-+ Besides basic editing, it supports: undo/redo, syntax highlighting,
-+ spell checking, justifying, auto-indentation, bracket matching,
-+ interactive search-and-replace (with regular expressions), and the
-+ editing of multiple files.
-
-package: nano-archimedes
-blurb: nano-archimedes is a free package for the simulation of quantum
-+ systems. It is based on the Wigner equation, a formulation of quantum
-+ mechanics in terms of a phase-space which is mathematically equivalent
-+ to the Schroedinger equation. nano-archimedes implements the Wigner
-+ Monte Carlo method. The code can be easily extended to density
-+ functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent ab-initio simulations.
-
-package: ncurses
-blurb: GNU Ncurses is a library which provides capabilities to write text to a
-+ terminal in a terminal-independent manner. It supports pads and
-+ color as well as multiple highlights and forms characters. It is
-+ typically used to implement user interfaces for command-line
-+ applications. The accompanying ncursesw library provides wide character
-+ support.
-
-package: nettle
-blurb: GNU Nettle is a low-level cryptographic library. It is designed to fit
-+ in easily in almost any context. It can be easily included in
-+ cryptographic toolkits for object-oriented languages or in
-+ applications themselves.
-
-package: network
-blurb: null (container for network work)
-
-package: ocrad
-blurb: GNU Ocrad is an optical character recognition program based on a feature
-+ extraction method. It can read images in PBM, PGM or PPM formats and
-+ it produces text in 8-bit or UTF-8 formats.
-
-package: octave
-blurb: GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language that is specialized
-+ for numerical computations. It can be used for both linear and
-+ non-linear applications and it provides great support for visualizing
-+ results. Work may be performed both at the interactive command-line
-+ as well as via script files.
-
-package: oleo
-blurb: GNU Oleo is a spreadsheet program. It offers both a terminal interface
-+ and a LessTif-based graphical user interface. It features familiar,
-+ Emacs-like keybindings. It supports many standard spreadsheet
-+ features such as macros and functions.
-
-package: oo-browser
-blurb: null (newpkg/20160810)
-
-package: orgadoc
-blurb: GNU OrgaDoc is a system for easily maintaining a pool of documents
-+ between computers. Documents are synchronized by rsync or unison; no
-+ database or HTTP server is required.
-
-package: osip
-blurb: GNU oSIP is an implementation of the SIP protocol. It is used to
provide
-+ multimedia and telecom software developers with an interface to
-+ initiate and control SIP sessions.
-
-package: panorama
-blurb: GNU Panorama is a framework for producing 3D graphics. It can perform
-+ various effects, such as focal blur, arbitrary light sources, bump
-+ mapping, and several lighting effects.
-
-package: parallel
-blurb: GNU Parallel is a tool for executing shell jobs in parallel using one
-+ or more computers. Jobs can consist of single commands or of scripts
-+ and they are executed on lists of files, hosts, users or other items.
-
-package: parted
-blurb: GNU Parted is a package for creating and manipulating disk
-+ partition tables. It includes a library and command-line utility.
-
-package: pascal
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: patch
-blurb: Patch is a program that applies changes to files based on differences
-+ laid out as by the program "diff". The changes may be applied to one or
-+ more files depending on the contents of the diff file. It accepts
-+ several different diff formats. It may also be used to revert
-+ previously applied differences.
-
-package: paxutils
-blurb: GNU paxutils is a suite of archive utilities. It contains versions
-+ of the cpio, tar and pax archivers.
-
-package: pcb
-blurb: GNU PCB is an interactive tool for editing printed circuit board
layouts.
-+ It features a rats-nest implementation, schematic/netlist import, and
-+ design rule checking. It also includes an autorouter and a trace
-+ optimizer; and it can produce photorealistic and design review
-+ images.
-
-package: pdf
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: pem
-blurb: GNU Pem is a simple tool for tracking personal income and
-+ expenses. It operates from the command line and it stores its data
-+ in a basic text format in your home directory. It can easily print
-+ reports of your spending on different expenses via a basic search
-+ feature.
-
-package: pexec
-blurb: GNU pexec is a program for executing commands or shell scripts in
-+ parallel on one or many computers. As it works, execution parameters
-+ such as the environment variables or standard input, output and
-+ error can be varied.
-
-package: pgccfd
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: phantom_home
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: pies
-blurb: GNU pies is a program that supervises the invocation and execution of
-+ other programs. It reads the list of programs to be started from its
-+ configuration file, executes them, and then monitors their status,
-+ re-executing them as necessary.
-
-package: pipo
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: plotutils
-blurb: GNU Plotutils is a package for plotting and working with
-+ 2D graphics. It includes a library, "libplot", for C and C++ for
-+ exporting 2D vector graphics in many file formats. It also has
-+ support for 2D vector graphics animations. The package also contains
-+ command-line programs for plotting scientific data.
-
-package: polyxmass
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: powerguru
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: proxyknife
-blurb: GNU proxyknife is a tool to validate free proxies from behind a
-+ firewall. The validation process is fully customizable to meet your
-+ needs.
-
-package: pspp
-blurb: GNU PSPP is a statistical analysis program. It can perform descriptive
-+ statistics, T-tests, linear regression and non-parametric tests. It
-+ features both a graphical interface as well as command-line input.
-+ PSPP is designed to interoperate with Gnumeric, LibreOffice and
-+ OpenOffice. Data can be imported from spreadsheets, text files and
-+ database sources and it can be output in text, PostScript, PDF or
-+ HTML.
-
-package: psychosynth
-blurb: GNU Psychosynth is an interactive, modular soft-synth. It emulates a 3D
-+ surface on which modules are placed and manipulated, generating and
-+ altering music. Psychosynth consists of a C++ library, a 3D
-+ interface and a command-line interface.
-
-package: pythonwebkit
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: pth
-blurb: GNU Pth is a portable library providing non-preemptive, priority-based
-+ scheduling for multiple execution threads. Each thread has its own
-+ program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable.
-+ Threads are scheduled in a cooperative way, rather than in the
-+ standard preemptive way, such that they are managed according to
-+ priority and events. However, Pth also features emulation of
-+ POSIX.1c threads ("pthreads") for backwards compatibility.
-
-package: pyconfigure
-blurb: GNU pyconfigure provides template files for easily implementing
-+ standards-compliant configure scripts and Makefiles for Python-based
-+ packages. It is designed to work alongside existing Python setup
-+ scripts, making it easy to integrate into existing projects. Powerful
-+ and flexible Autoconf macros are available, allowing you to easily
-+ make adjustments to the installation procedure based on the
-+ capabilities of the target computer.
-
-package: qexo
-blurb: redirect kawa
-
-package: quickthreads
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: r
-blurb: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
-+ graphics. It provides a variety of statistical techniques, such as
-+ linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests,
-+ time-series analysis, classification and clustering. It also provides
-+ robust support for producing publication-quality data plots. A large
-+ amount of 3rd-party packages are available, greatly increasing its
-+ breadth and scope.
-
-package: radius
-blurb: Radius is a server for remote user authentication and accounting.
-+ It is generally useful for networks that require a centralized
-+ authentication and accounting services for its workstations.
-+ Authentication can be performed in a variety of ways, such as via
-+ "/etc/passwd" or credentials stored in an SQL database.
-
-package: rcs
-blurb: RCS is the original Revision Control System. It works on a
-+ file-by-file basis, in contrast to subsequent version control systems
-+ such as CVS, Subversion, and Git. This can make it suitable for
-+ system administration files, for example, which are often inherently
-+ local to one machine.
-
-package: readline
-blurb: The GNU readline library allows users to edit command lines as they
-+ are typed in. It can maintain a searchable history of previously
-+ entered commands, letting you easily recall, edit and re-enter past
-+ commands. It features both Emacs-like and vi-like keybindings,
-+ making its usage comfortable for anyone.
-
-package: recutils
-blurb: GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries for creating and
-+ manipulating text-based, human-editable databases. Despite being
-+ text-based, databases created with Recutils carry all of the expected
-+ features such as unique fields, primary keys, time stamps and more.
-+ Many different field types are supported, as is encryption.
-
-package: reftex
-blurb: GNU RefTex is a package for implementing labels, references, citations
-+ and indices in LaTeX documents. It works by wrapping around four
-+ LaTeX macros: label, ref, cite and index. It automates the common
-+ tasks that normally are required when using these macros.
-
-package: remotecontrol
-blurb: GNU Remotecontrol is a web application for managing IP-enabled HVAC
-+ thermostats and other building automation devices. The application
-+ can read data from and write data to multiple such devices.
-
-package: ring
-blurb: Ring is a program for universal communication which respects freedoms
-+ and privacy of its users. Ring uses distributed hash tables for
-+ establishing communication. This avoids keeping centralized registries
-+ of users and storing personal data.
-
-package: rottlog
-blurb: GNU Rot[t]log is a program for managing log files. It is used to
-+ automatically rotate out log files when they have reached a given
-+ size or according to a given schedule. It can also be used to
-+ automatically compress and archive such logs. Rot[t]log will mail
-+ reports of its activity to the system administrator.
-
-package: rpge
-blurb: The GNU Role Playing Game Engine provides an engine for
-+ creating two-dimensional, graphical role-playing games, providing,
-+ for example, a sprite-tiling grid, sprite rendering, and event
-+ handling.
-
-package: rush
-blurb: GNU Rush is a restricted user shell, for systems on which users
-+ are to be provided with only limited functionality or resources.
-+ Administrators set user rights via a configuration file which can be
-+ used to limit, for example, the commands that can be executed, CPU
-+ time, or virtual memory usage.
-
-package: sather
-blurb: GNU Sather is an object-oriented programming language similar to Eiffel.
-+ It is designed to be simple, efficient, safe, and non-proprietary.
-+ It features garbage collection, statically-checked strong typing,
-+ multiple inheritance, parameterized classes and more. This package
-+ consists of a compiler, a class library, the language specification
-+ and programming manual, and a browser for displaying sources and
-+ directed graphs of class inheritance.
-
-package: scm
-blurb: GNU SCM is an implementation of Scheme. This implementation includes
-+ Hobbit, a Scheme-to-C compiler, which can generate C files whose
-+ binaries can be dynamically or statically linked with a SCM
-+ executable.
-
-package: screen
-blurb: GNU Screen is a terminal window manager that multiplexes a single
-+ terminal between several processes. The virtual terminals each
-+ provide features such as a scroll-back buffer and a copy-and-paste
-+ mechanism. Screen then manages the different virtual terminals,
-+ allowing you to easily switch between them, to detach them from the
-+ current session, or even splitting the view to show two terminals at
-+ once.
-
-package: sed
-blurb: Sed is a non-interactive, text stream editor. It receives a text
-+ input from a file or from standard input and it then applies a series
-+ of text editing commands to the stream and prints its output to
-+ standard output. It is often used for substituting text patterns in
-+ a stream. The GNU implementation offers several extensions over the
-+ standard utility.
-
-package: serveez
-blurb: GNU Serveez is a server framework providing the routines necessary to
-+ easily implement IP-based servers in your application. It
-+ demonstrates aspects of network programming in a portable manner,
-+ making it convenient for both simplifying the process of adding a
-+ server to your application or for learning about how network services
-+ work. Several example servers are provided already, such as an HTTP
-+ server and an IRC server.
-
-package: sharutils
-blurb: GNU sharutils is a package for creating and manipulating shell
-+ archives that can be readily emailed. A shell archive is a file
-+ that can be processed by a Bourne-type shell to unpack the original
-+ collection of files. This package is mostly for compatibility and
-+ historical interest.
-
-package: shepherd
-blurb: The GNU Shepherd is a daemon-managing daemon, meaning that it
-+ supervises the execution of system services, replacing similar
-+ functionality found in typical init systems. It provides
-+ dependency-handling through a convenient interface and is based on
-+ GNU Guile.
-
-package: shishi
-blurb: GNU Shishi is a free implementation of the Kerberos 5 network security
-+ system. It is used to allow non-secure network nodes to communicate
-+ in a secure manner through client-server mutual authentication via
-+ tickets.
-
-package: shmm
-blurb: GNU SHMM is a shared memory manager. It can read or write to shared
-+ memory. It also supports other commands such as locking or unlocking
-+ a block of shared memory identified by key and size.
-
-package: shtool
-blurb: GNU shtool is a multipurpose shell tool. It can perform the
-+ functions of many different commands, in order to provide a single
-+ tool to distribute with a source distribution in order to ensure
-+ portability of shell scripts. For example, shtool can perform the
-+ jobs of the common commands "install", "mkdir" or "echo" on systems
-+ that lack them.
-
-package: sipwitch
-blurb: GNU SIP Witch is a peer-to-peer Voice-over-IP server that uses the
-+ SIP protocol. Calls can be made from behind NAT firewalls and
-+ without the need for a service provider. Its peer-to-peer design
-+ ensures that there is no central point for media intercept or capture
-+ and thus it can be used to construct a secure telephone system that
-+ operates over the public internet.
-
-package: slib
-blurb: GNU SLIB is a portable common library for the Scheme programming
-+ language. It supports a large variety of different Scheme
-+ implementations, offering them a framework for using packages of
-+ Scheme procedures and syntax.
-
-package: smalltalk
-blurb: GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk language. It
-+ implements the ANSI standard for the language and also includes extra
-+ classes such as ones for networking and GUI programming.
-
-package: social
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: solfege
-blurb: GNU Solfege is a program for practicing musical ear-training. With it,
-+ you can practice your recognition of various musical intervals and
-+ chords. It features a statistics overview so you can monitor your
-+ progress across several sessions. Solfege is also designed to be
-+ extensible so you can easily write your own lessons.
-
-package: spacechart
-blurb: GNU SpaceChart lets you view how the stars are distributed in
-+ three-dimensional space. It allows you, for example, to determine
-+ the distances between stars, to view them from any point of view, or
-+ to filter your view by spectral class and luminosity.
-
-package: speex
-blurb: GNU Speex is a patent-free audio compression codec specially
-+ designed for speech. It is well-adapted to internet applications,
-+ such as VoIP. It features compression of different bands in the same
-+ bitstream, intensity stereo encoding, and voice activity detection.
-
-package: spell
-blurb: Spell is a command-line spell-checking program. It reads through a
-+ text input and prints each misspelled word on a line of its own. It
-+ is implemented as a wrapper for GNU aspell or ispell.
-
-package: sqltutor
-blurb: GNU Sqltutor is a web-based, interactive SQL tutorial. It features
-+ multiple tutorials available in different languages. The tutorials
-+ present a series of questions in a dialog and, when complete, they
-+ display a final evaluation including correct answers for wrong
-+ solutions.
-
-package: ssw
-blurb: A Gtk+ widget providing a 2 dimensional array to view and manipulate
-+ tabular data similar to that provided by popular spread sheet programs.
-+ The design follows the model-view-controller paradigm and is O(1) in both
-+ time and space, providing very fast and efficient operation even on very
-+ large data. Features such as cut and paste, drag and drop etc are
-+ included.
-
-package: src-highlite
-blurb: GNU source-highlight reads in a source code file and produces an output
-+ file in which the keywords are highlighted in different colors to
-+ designate their syntactic role. It supports over 150 different
-+ languages and it can output to 8 different formats, including HTML,
-+ LaTeX and ODF. It can also output to ANSI color escape sequences,
-+ so that highlighted source code can be seen in a terminal.
-
-package: stalkerfs
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: stow
-blurb: GNU Stow is a symlink manager. It generates symlinks to directories of
-+ data and makes them appear to be merged into the same directory. It
-+ is typically used for managing software packages installed from source,
-+ by letting you install them apart in distinct directories and then
-+ create symlinks to the files in a common directory such as
-+ /usr/local.
-
-package: stump
-blurb: GNU STUMP is a robomoderator program for USENET newsgroups and mailing
-+ lists, featuring web-based moderation. It supports group moderation
-+ via multiple human moderators. It can also automatically reject
-+ non-conforming messages without human intervention. It includes a web
-+ interface.
-
-package: superopt
-blurb: GNU Superopt is a function sequence generator for superoptimization. It
-+ uses an exhaustive generate-and-test approach to find the shortest
-+ instruction sequence for a given function.
-
-package: swbis
-blurb: Swbis is a software administration system specified by POSIX. It
-+ features network-transparent management of software packages for
-+ system administrators. For example, entire file system directories
-+ can be copied host-to-host across a network in a transparent manner.
-+ The package also features advanced tarball creation methods and
-+ integrity checking mechanisms.
-
-package: sysutils
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: taler
-blurb: null (newpkg/20150206)
-
-package: talkfilters
-blurb: The GNU Talk Filters are programs that convert English text into
-+ stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialects. The filters are provided
-+ as a C library, so they can easily be integrated into other programs.
-
-package: tar
-blurb: Tar provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as the
-+ ability to extract, update or list files in an existing archive. It
-+ is useful for combining many files into one larger file, while
-+ maintaining directory structure and file information such as
-+ permissions and creation/modification dates. GNU tar offers many
-+ extensions over the standard utility.
-
-package: termcap
-blurb: GNU termcap is a library and a database that are used to enable the use
-+ of display terminals in a terminal-independent manner. The database
-+ describes the capabilities of many different display terminals. The
-+ library can then adapt generalized instructions given by a program to
-+ the specific capabilities of the display terminal as found in the
-+ database.
-
-package: termutils
-blurb: The GNU Termutils package contains two programs, "tput" and
-+ "tabs". "tput" is used in shell scripts to manipulate the terminal
-+ display, for example by clearing it or moving the cursor to a specific
-+ point, centering text or underlining text. "tabs" is used to specify
-+ and set hardware tab stops on terminals that support it.
-
-package: teseq
-blurb: GNU Teseq is a program that analyzes files that contain control
-+ sequences. It converts the sequences that it encounters into a
-+ human-readable description of what actions those sequences perform.
-+ It can also translate its output back into machine-readable control
-+ sequences.
-
-package: teximpatient
-blurb: TeX for the Impatient is a ~350 page book on TeX, plain TeX and
-+ Eplain, written by Paul Abrahams, Kathryn Hargreaves and Karl Berry.
-
-package: texinfo
-blurb: Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project. It
-+ uses a single source file using explicit commands to
-+ produce a final document in any of several supported output formats,
-+ such as HTML or PDF. This package includes both the tools necessary
-+ to produce Info documents from their source and the
-+ command-line Info reader. The emphasis of the language is on
-+ expressing the content semantically, avoiding physical markup commands.
-
-package: texmacs
-blurb: GNU TeXmacs is a text editing platform which is specialized for
-+ scientists. It is ideal for editing structured documents with
-+ different types of content. It has robust support for mathematical
-+ formulas and plots. It can also act as an interface to external
-+ mathematical programs such as R and Octave. TeXmacs is completely
-+ extensible via Guile.
-
-package: thales
-blurb: GNU Thales provides macros for performing unit testing in Guile
-+ and for checking the stability of the public interface of your
-+ modules.
-
-package: time
-blurb: Time is a command that displays information about the resources that
-+ a program uses. The display output of the program can be customized
-+ or saved to a file.
-
-package: tramp
-blurb: TRAMP is a GNU Emacs package that allows you to access files on remote
-+ machines as though they were local files. This includes editing
-+ files, performing version control tasks and modifying directory
-+ contents with dired. Access is performed via ssh, rsh, rlogin,
-+ telnet or other similar methods.
-
-package: trans-coord
-blurb: redirect gnun
-
-package: trueprint
-blurb: GNU Trueprint translates C source code files as PostScript files.
-+ In addition to the basic source code output, it can also perform
-+ diff-marking, indentation counting, function and file indices and
-+ more.
-
-package: unifont
-blurb: GNU Unifont is a bitmap font covering essentially all of
-+ Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane. The package also includes
-+ utilities to ease adding new glyphs to the font.
-
-package: units
-blurb: GNU Units converts numeric quantities between units
-+ of measure. It can handle scale changes through adaptive usage of
-+ standard scale prefixes (micro-, kilo-, etc.). It can also
-+ handle nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius. Its
-+ interpreter is powerful enough to be used effectively as a scientific
-+ calculator.
-
-package: unrtf
-blurb: GNU UnRTF converts text documents from RTF to HTML,
-+ LaTeX, or troff. It supports changes in font characteristics,
-+ underlines and strikethroughs, superscripts and subscripts, and more.
-
-package: userv
-blurb: GNU Userv is a utility that allows one program to invoke another even
-+ when only limited trust exists between them. This prevents the need
-+ from having to first switch to a different user account to perform
-+ certain tasks.
-
-package: uucp
-blurb: Taylor UUCP is the GNU implementation of UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy), a
-+ set of utilities for remotely transferring files, email and net news
-+ between computers.
-
-package: vc-dwim
-blurb: The vc-dwim package contains two tools, "vc-dwim" and "vc-chlog".
-+ vc-dwim is a tool that simplifies the task of maintaining a ChangeLog
-+ and using version control at the same time, for example by printing
-+ a reminder when a file change has been described in the ChangeLog but
-+ the file has not been added to the VC. vc-chlog scans changed files
-+ and generates standards-compliant ChangeLog entries based on the
-+ changes that it detects.
-
-package: vcdimager
-blurb: GNU VCDImager is a suite of programs for working with Video CDs
-+ and Super Video CDs. It can be used for authoring, disassembling and
-+ analyzing discs. It supports full playback control, segment play
-+ items, automatic padding of MPEG streams on the fly, and extraction of
-+ Video CDs into files.
-
-package: vera
-blurb: V.E.R.A. (Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms) is a list of computing
-+ acronyms distributed as an info document.
-
-package: vmgen
-blurb: redirect gforth
-
-package: wb
-blurb: GNU WB is a disk-based, sorted, associative-array database
-+ package for C, Scheme, Java and C#. Rather than being implemented via
-+ hashing, WB uses B-trees, which are optimized for using the minimum
-+ number of disk operations.
-
-package: wdiff
-blurb: GNU Wdiff is a front-end to the diff program from Diffutils that allows
-+ you to compare files on a word-by-word basis, where a word is
-+ anything between whitespace.
-
-package: websocket4j
-blurb: GNU Websocket4j is a Java library implementing the WebSocket protocol.
-+ With it, you can build web applications that interact with Java
-+ applications. The library includes both server- and client-side
-+ functionality.
-
-package: webstump
-blurb: redirect stump
-
-package: wget
-blurb: GNU Wget is a non-interactive tool for fetching files using the HTTP,
-+ HTTPS and FTP protocols. It can resume interrupted downloads, use
-+ file name wild cards, supports proxies and cookies, and it can convert
-+ absolute links in downloaded documents to relative links.
-
-package: which
-blurb: The which program finds the location of executables in PATH, with
-+ a variety of options. It is an alternative to the shell "type"
-+ built-in command.
-
-package: womb
-blurb: null (infrastructure randomness)
-
-package: xaos
-blurb: GNU XaoS is a graphical program that generates fractal patterns and
-+ allows you to zoom in and out of them infinitely in a fluid,
-+ continuous manner. It also includes tutorials that help to explain
-+ how fractals are built. It can generate many different fractal types
-+ such as the Mandelbrot set.
-
-package: xboard
-blurb: GNU XBoard is a graphical board for all varieties of chess, including
-+ international chess, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess)
-+ and Makruk. Several lesser-known variants are also supported. It
-+ presents a fully interactive graphical interface and it can load and
-+ save games in the Portable Game Notation.
-
-package: xhippo
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: xlogmaster
-blurb: GNU Xlogmaster is a program with a graphical user interface that lets
you
-+ monitor your system logs in a convenient way. The logs can be
-+ displayed with filters for highlighting or hiding lines. The program
-+ can also be used to automate taking actions upon user-defined events.
-
-package: xmlat
-blurb: null (stale)
-
-package: xnee
-blurb: GNU Xnee is a program that can record, replay and distribute user
-+ actions in X11. It can be used to automate user interactions for
-+ testing or demonstration purposes.
-
-package: xorriso
-blurb: GNU Xorriso is a tool for copying files to and from ISO 9660 Rock
-+ Ridge, a.k.a. Compact Disc File System, filesystems and it allows
-+ session-wise manipulation of them. It features a formatter and burner
-+ for CD, DVD and BD. It can operate on existing ISO images or it can
-+ create new ones. xorriso can then be used to copy files directly into
-+ or out of ISO file systems.
-
-package: zile
-blurb: GNU Zile is a lightweight Emacs clone. It usage is similar to
-+ the default Emacs configuration, but it carries a much lighter feature set.
-
-# Local Variables:
-# compile-command: "recfix pkgblurbs.txt"
-# End:
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