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diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm
index 8dbc0b4b40..c3298b3cec 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2020 Vitaliy Shatrov <D0dyBo0D0dyBo0@protonmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -335,10 +336,11 @@ used to apply commands with arbitrarily long arguments.")
#t)))))
(synopsis "Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell)")
(description
- "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.")
+ "GNU Coreutils package includes all of the basic command-line tools that
+are expected in a POSIX system, excluding shell. This package is the union of
+the GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. Most of these tools
+offer extended functionality beyond that which is outlined in the POSIX
+standard.")
(license gpl3+)
(home-page "https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/")))