Re: Why 'mrproper'?

Kelsey Hudson (khudson@compendium.us)
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT)


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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