On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> Besides of the referral to domestic cleaning agent..
> The "mrproper" tag is being used all over the place
> to remove most of configuration and compilation related
> files.
>
> "distclean" calls at first "mrproper", and then does some
> additional cleanups, like various editor backup files.
>
> Thus "distclean" does more than "mrproper".
Yes, thanks, I see what it does, I was more wondering about the name (ok,
typical late night in-joke) and the need for a less complete cleaning. It
takes the same time as distclean, and requires the same steps, I was just
wondering at the need.
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