Most ebuilds simply contain "plugin for gstreamer". Could you be a little more descriptive, like in media-plugins/gst-plugins-mplex "GStreamer plugin for MPEG/DVD/SVCD/VCD video/audio multiplexing"?
If you suggest better descriptions, we will replace the generic ones from ebuilds with it.
gst-plugins-a52dec GStreamer interface to a52dec to decode ATSC A/52 streams used in DVD gst-plugins-alsa GStreamer plugin to output to ALSA gst-plugins-cdio GStreamer interface to libcdio gst-plugins-cdparanoia GStreamer interface to cdparanoia gst-plugins-dvb GStreamer plugin to decode DVB gst-plugins-dvdread GStreamer interface to libdvdread gst-plugins-faac GStreamer interface to faac gst-plugins-faad GStreamer interface to faad2, an AAC decoder gst-plugins-gdkpixbuf GStreamer plugin gst-plugins-gio GStreamer interface to GIO gst-plugins-gnomevfs GStreamer interface to GnomeVFS gst-plugins-ivorbis GStreamer interface to tremor, a fixed-point Ogg Vorbis decoder gst-plugins-jack GStreamer plugin to output to JACK gst-plugins-ladspa GStreamer plugin gst-plugins-lame GStreamer interface to LAME gst-plugins-libmms GStreamer interface for accessing Microsoft Media Server gst-plugins-libvisual GStreamer interface to libvisual gst-plugins-mad GStreamer interface to libmad, a "M"peg "A"udio "D"ecoder library gst-plugins-modplug GStreamer interface to libmodplug gst-plugins-musepack GStreamer plugin gst-plugins-neon GStreamer interface to neon, an HTTP and WebDAV client library gst-plugins-ofa GStreamer interface to libofa, Open Fingerprint Architecture gst-plugins-ogg GStreamer interface to libogg, the Ogg media file format library gst-plugins-pango GStreamer interface to pango, an internationalized text layout and rendering library gst-plugins-resindvd GStreamer plugin for DVD navigation gst-plugins-schroedinger GStreamer plugin for Dirac video codec gst-plugins-sidplay GStreamer plugin for C64 SID decoding gst-plugins-theora GStreamer plugin for Ogg Theora decoding gst-plugins-twolame GStreamer interface to twolame, an optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder gst-plugins-v4l2 GStreamer plugin for Video For Linux (V4L) gst-plugins-vorbis GStreamer plugin to decode Ogg Vorbis gst-plugins-x GStreamer plugin to output to X gst-plugins-x264 GStreamer plugin for X264 (H.264/AVC) gst-plugins-ximagesrc GStreamer plugin gst-plugins-xvideo GStreamer plugin Not great, but definitely an improvement over "plugin for gstreamer".
Created attachment 346994 [details] Automagically add DESCRIPTION to gstreamer plugins Run in gentoo-x86 or /usr/portage. Add an argument to back up old files ("fix.sh .bak").
Created attachment 346996 [details, diff] Patch gstreamer plugins for better DESCRIPTION Script doesn't actually work.
I went over all plugins of the tree and added a description to all of them.
