Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Kelsey Hudson <> | Subject | Re: Why 'mrproper'? |
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, 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.
mrproper is really a joke. Here in the US, we have Mr. Clean; in German, at least, Mr. Proper is the literal translation. I'm not sure who added it, but the thought of an old bald guy scrubbing down the source code with a sponge is kinda funny. :D
Kelsey Hudson khudson@compendium.us Software Engineer/UNIX Systems Administrator Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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