--- a/components/r/r-cran-parallel.p5m	Fri Nov 20 12:43:10 2015 -0800
+++ b/components/r/r-cran-parallel.p5m	Fri Nov 20 14:57:30 2015 -0800
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 set name=pkg.fmri \
     value=pkg:/library/r/r-cran-parallel@$(IPS_COMPONENT_VERSION),$(BUILD_VERSION)
 set name=pkg.summary value="Support for Parallel computation in R"
+set name=pkg.description \
+    value="Support for parallel computation, including by forking (taken from package multicore), by sockets (taken from package snow) and random-number generation."
 set name=com.oracle.info.description \
     value="the Support for Parallel computation in R"
 set name=com.oracle.info.tpno value=$(TPNO)