Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:11:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:11:21 -0400 Received: from p50887B26.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.136.123.38]:52958 "EHLO hawkeye.luckynet.adm") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:11:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:13:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill X-X-Sender: thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm To: Andries Brouwer cc: davidsen@tmr.com, Subject: Re: Why 'mrproper'? In-Reply-To: <20020807170041.GA259@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: X-Location: Dorndorf; Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 22 Hi, On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Funny that you ask this question first now. > mrproper came in 0.99p7 > distclean came in 0.99p14 as a synonym for mrproper. "Mr. President, this is not exactly true." The 'distclean' target also removes your editors backup files ("*~", "#*#", "*.bak") and your patch leftovers ("*.orig", "*.rej"), notably your ".SUMS". Thunder -- .-../../-./..-/-..- .-./..-/.-.././.../.-.-.- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/