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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 15:18:27 +0200
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It was named such at the time, as a 'cleaning agent' comparible to 'Mr 
Muscle', etc.. Thus mrproper _realy_ cleans the kernel tree ;-)

    -- Chris

Bill Davidsen wrote:

>Having started out on the four floppy MCC "distribution" of Linux,
>building kernels clean with 'make distclean,' can someone provide a quick
>historical note as to what mrproper buys? A quick look at the tree after
>each didn't tell me much.
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