Re: Packages with the same description

[mikadoZero]

Looking into this further there are many packages with non unique synopsis or 
description. 

Total number of Guix packages.

guix package -s "" | recsel -p name | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr --delete 
'\n' | sed 's/name: /\nname: /g' | wc -l                       

9211

Number of packages with non unique synopsis.

guix package -s "" | recsel -p synopsis | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr --delete 
'\n' | sed 's/synopsis: /\nsynopsis: /g' | sort | uniq --all-repeated | wc -l

2548

Number of packages with non unique description.

guix package -s "" | recsel -p description | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr 
--delete '\n' | sed 's/description: /\ndescription: /g' | sort | uniq 
--all-repeated | wc -l

2459

Package descriptions sorted by how many times they are duplicated. 

guix package -s "" | recsel -p description | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr 
--delete '\n' | sed 's/description: /\ndescription: /g' | sort | uniq 
--all-repeated | uniq --count | sort --general-numeric-sort --reverse | less

The synopsis of packages sorted by how many times they are duplicated.

guix package -s "" | recsel -p synopsis | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | tr --delete 
'\n' | sed 's/synopsis: /\nsynopsis: /g' | sort | uniq --all-repeated | uniq 
--count | sort --general-numeric-sort --reverse | less