Re: make distclean and make dep??

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:

> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >>Also noted, somewhere between 2.5.45 and 2.5.46 distclean vanished from 
> >>"make help." It's really useful to have distclean work to build patched 
> >>kernels for distribution, hopefully this is an oversight and not a new 
> >>policy.
> > 
> > Since they are equal I removed the help for the less used version.
> 
> Not so nice. /me e.g. is used to distclean, never used mrproper and 
> distclean is a standard target in most projects, so people are probably 
> more used to distclean than mrproper which is kernel specific.

I agree with this.

If one of them must go then it should be mrproper.

Nicolas