diff --git a/sys-apps/man/man-1.6f.bep b/sys-apps/man/man-1.6f.bep
index 6413b9654..7c0e8e9a3 100644
--- a/sys-apps/man/man-1.6f.bep
+++ b/sys-apps/man/man-1.6f.bep
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-DESCRIPTION="The groff (GNU troff) software is a typesetting package which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output." 
+DESCRIPTION="Standard commands to read man pages." 
 HOMEPAGE="http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/" 
 SRC_URI="http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/man-1.6f.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="67aaaa6df35215e812fd7d89472c44b6"