diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4e9cf4f..d19e3a2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ setup(
     name="flake8",
     license="MIT",
     version=__version__,
-    description="code checking using pep8 and pyflakes",
+    description="the modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co",
     long_description=README,
     author="Tarek Ziade",
     author_email="tarek@ziade.org",