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diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm index 296265c769..14e8b15b69 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm @@ -450,9 +450,15 @@ vision algorithms. It can be used to do things like: ("expat" ,expat) ("hdf5" ,hdf5))) (home-page "https://libvips.github.io/libvips/") - (synopsis "Image processing system") + (synopsis "Multithreaded image processing system with low memory needs") (description - "vips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library.") + "VIPS is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. +It's particularly good at processing large images, working with colour, +scientific analysis, and general research & development. + +Compared to most image processing libraries VIPS needs little RAM and runs +quickly, especially on machines with more than one CPU core. This is primarily +due to its architecture which automatically parallelises the image workflows.") (license license:lgpl2.1+))) (define-public nip2 |