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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:29:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
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To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
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Subject: Re: make distclean and make dep??
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>Also noted, somewhere between 2.5.45 and 2.5.46 distclean vanished from 
> >>"make help." It's really useful to have distclean work to build patched 
> >>kernels for distribution, hopefully this is an oversight and not a new 
> >>policy.
> > 
> > Since they are equal I removed the help for the less used version.
> 
> Not so nice. /me e.g. is used to distclean, never used mrproper and 
> distclean is a standard target in most projects, so people are probably 
> more used to distclean than mrproper which is kernel specific.

I agree with this.

If one of them must go then it should be mrproper.


Nicolas

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