diff --git a/sci-libs/fftw/fftw-3.2.2.recipe b/sci-libs/fftw/fftw-3.2.2.recipe
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 SUMMARY="Fast C library for the Discrete Fourier Transform"
-DESCRIPTION="Fast C library for the Discrete Fourier Transform"
+DESCRIPTION="
+FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform \
+(DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and \
+complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine \
+transforms or DCT/DST). We believe that FFTW, which is free software, should \
+become the FFT library of choice for most applications.
+Our benchmarks, performed on on a variety of platforms, show that FFTW's \
+performance is typically superior to that of other publicly available FFT \
+software, and is even competitive with vendor-tuned codes. In contrast to \
+vendor-tuned codes, however, FFTW's performance is portable: the same program \
+will perform well on most architectures without modification. Hence the name, \
+FFTW, which stands for the somewhat whimsical title of Fastest Fourier \
+Transform in the West.
+"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.fftw.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.fftw.org/fftw-3.2.2.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="b616e5c91218cc778b5aa735fefb61ae"