activity-log-manager - A graphical user interface which lets you easily control what gets logged by Zeitgeist + GUI for controlling what activities gets logged by Zeitgeist adns - adns is an asyncronous replacement resolver library + Asyncronous DNS resolver library afpfs-ng I don't know what the Apple Filing Protocol is, it would probably be helpful if that was included in the description. agda-stdlib - Agda standard libraries + Agda standard library aiccu Acceptable, but could be improved. airspy What is Airspy SDR? Be aware, SDR can stand for any number of things. aisleriot Why does it matter that it is written in Guile Scheme? ajaxterm Broken upstream URL. And I would guess: - A web based terminal + A web-based terminal emulator akonadi PIM can stand for multiple things, and the description is too complicated, is it perhaps: - PIM layer, which provides an asynchronous API to access all kind of PIM data + Asynchronous KDE library for personal information management akonadi-calendar - Akonadi calendar integration + Calendar integration for the personal information management system/library/whatever-it-is Akonadi akonadiconsole akonadi-contact akonadi-mime akonadi-notes akonadi-qt4 akonadi-search akonadi-socialutils You know that drill, also: have you noticed some of them have identical descriptions. akregator News feed aggregator[1] for KDE. [1] Or “reader” if you rather. alacarte - Menu editor for gnome + Menu editor for GNOME alltray - Drops any app in the tray. + Minimize any program to the tray almanah - Small GTK+ application to allow you to keep a diary of your life + Simple[1] GTK+ diary application [1] I'm assuming. alsa-firmware - ALSA firmware package + Fireware for the audio subsystem ALSA alsa-oss - OSS compatibility library + OSS compatibility library for ALSA alsaplayer I'm sure you can shorten the description a bit if you try. alsa-plugins - Extra alsa plugins + Additional plugins for the ALSA audio subsystem Perhaps also link the description of what it includes. alsa-tools alsa-utils Try harder. amarok The description is too grandiose and egocentric. - The powerful music player for KDE + Feature-rich music player for KDE amb-plugins - A set of LADSPA ambisonics plugins + Ambisonics plugins for LADSPA amsynth Arch Linux usually use American spelling, so does amsynth. The description is narcissistic, but since it is also descriptive, there is not reason to make that obvious. - Analogue Modeling SYNTHesizer + Analog Modeling synthesizer amule Try harder. analitza The description makes it sound magical and omnipotent, or make it sound like it implements the basic operators you already find and any programming language. android-file-transfer Don't like the package name be more descriptive than the description. android-udev Arch Linux only supports Linux... - Udev rules to connect Android devices to your linux box + udev-rules for Android devices anjuta - GNOME Integrated Development Environment (IDE) + Integrated development environment for GNOME anjuta-extras - Anjuta Integrated Development Environment extra plugins + Plugins for the integrated development environment Anjuta Perhaps also link the escription of what it includes. anki - Helps you remember facts (like words/phrases in a foreign language) efficiently + Aide-mémoire flashcard system with support for multimedia and LaTeX antiword - A free MS Word reader for Linux and RISC OS + Free Microsoft Word document reader anyfs-tools - unix-way toolset for recovering and converting filesystems + Unix-way toolset for recovering and converting filesystems apache Since when is Apache high performant. apache-ant - A java-based build tool + A Java-based build tool apache-ant-doc - Apache Ant build tool documentation + A Java-based build tool (documentation) apache-ivy What kind of dependency manager, does it manage your dependency on drugs? apg - Automated Password Generator. + Password generator apitrace Try harder. appstream - Provides a standard for creating app stores across distributions + Distro-agnostic standard for creating software repositories But I would also like do know what it does. Is this just a document that describes the standard? apr apr-util Why are there descriptions identical. Also, try do be more descriptive. arandr - Provide a simple visual front end for XRandR 1.2. + Minimalist GUI front-end for XRandR arb You've never standard that it is a C library before, why start now. Also, arbitrary-precision does mean that it is floating-point (integers do not have precision), but you may opt to be redundant if you so wish. - C library for arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic - arbitrary-precision ball arithmetic library arch Don't be so pompous. Also, no period and the end please. archboot - Advanced, modular arch boot/install image creation utility + Advanced, modular Arch Linux boot/install image creation utility archlinux-xdg-menu arch-wiki-lite Should be obvious what I want you to fix. ark - Archiving Tool + File-archive tool for KDE armagetronad - A Tron Clone in 3D. + Tron clone in 3D Would also be nice to know what Tron is. asio - Cross-platform C++ library for ASynchronous network I/O + Cross-platform C++ library for asynchronous network I/O assaultcube FPS => first person shooter What is the Cube engine and why do I care? astyle - A free, fast and small automatic formatter for C, C++, C#, and Java source code. + Free, fast and small automatic formatter for C, C++, C# and Java source code Or something like that, your choice. asunder - a graphical CD ripper and encoder + Graphical CD ripper and encoder at - AT and batch delayed command scheduling utility and daemon + Delayed command scheduling utility atanks - Atomic Tanks And what is that? atftp - client/server implementation of the TFTP protocol that implements RFCs 1350, 2090, 2347, 2348, and 2349 - Client/server implementation of the TFTP protocol that implements RFCs 1350, 2090, 2347, 2348 and 2349 atlas-lapack-base Do I really have lookup LAPACK, BLAS and ATLAS to know what this is? atomicparsley What is iTunes-style metadata? atomix Could be made clear that this a puzzle game and not an educational chemistry program. audex audience audiofile audit You know the drill. aumix I'm assuming GPM does not stand for Gesellschaft für ProjektManagement; if it is not is wtf or vera, it does not exist. autocutsel - synchronizes the two copy/paste buffers mainly used by X applications + Synchronizes X's copy–paste buffers avahi Try harder. awesome You could include that it is dynamic. aws-cli “Command Line Interface” should probably be lowercased, but how is it Universal? Is Universal Command Line Interface some kind of user interface I haven't heard of before? awstats Fix casing. axel What the fix is an download accelerator, does it make my download go faster? No, it is just a download manager. But could you spare me some more information?