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05/14: gnu: nss-mdns: Improve synopsis and description.


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: 05/14: gnu: nss-mdns: Improve synopsis and description.
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:32:34 -0500 (EST)

nckx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit e80611c4550577d7ce0578d79dafe479f8350289
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Jan 25 06:45:29 2018 +0100

    gnu: nss-mdns: Improve synopsis and description.
    
    * gnu/packages/avahi.scm (nss-mdns)[synopis, description]: Edit to
    appease ‘guix lint’ and, I hope, be a bit more clear.
---
 gnu/packages/avahi.scm | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
index 8f87bc4..f4d17c5 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/avahi.scm
@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ DNS-SD (for \"DNS-Based Service Discovery\") protocols.")
      ;; appropriately.
      '(#:configure-flags '("--localstatedir=/var")))
     (home-page "https://github.com/lathiat/nss-mdns";)
-    (synopsis "The mDNS Name Service Switch (NSS) plug-in")
+    (synopsis "Multicast DNS Name Service Switch (@dfn{NSS}) plug-in")
     (description
-     "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
-of the GNU C Library, providing host name resolution via Multicast DNS (mDNS).
-It allows for name resolution by programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain
-'.local'.")
+     "Nss-mdns is a plug-in for the GNU C Library's Name Service Switch
+(@dfn{NSS}) that resolves host names via multicast DNS (@dfn{mDNS}).  It is
+most often used in home and other small networks without a local name server,
+to resolve host names in the @samp{.local} top-level domain.")
     (license lgpl2.1+)))



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