diff --git a/srcpkgs/nqp/template b/srcpkgs/nqp/template
index 97f613a44cd..4c072fcf49c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/nqp/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/nqp/template
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ configure_script="perl Configure.pl"
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr/lib/perl6 --backends=moar"
 hostmakedepends="perl>=5.20 moarvm>=2014.09"
 makedepends="${hostmakedepends}"
-short_desc="Not Quite Perl, a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for virtual machines"
+short_desc="Not Quite Perl, a lightweight Perl 6-like environment for VMs"
 maintainer="Ruslan <axetwe@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://github.com/perl6/nqp"
 license="Artistic-2.0"