Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Aug 2002 15:18:27 +0200 | From | Chris Chabot <> | Subject | Re: Why 'mrproper'? |
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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. > > > >- >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/ > >
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