Re: Cleaning up make clean's behavior

[Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>]

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Hello


On Sunday, June 3, 2018, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

> I don't think we should change "make clean" to delete files in the
> working directory that were not created by our build system.
>
> I, for one, keep many files of notes and draft patches in my Guix
> working directory.  I've been doing this for years.  If "make clean"
> were suddenly changed to delete all of these files, I would lose data
> and probably be very angry.
>
> I happened to see this message, but if I had been focused on other
> things, I might well have missed it.  It's not practical for us to
> ensure that everyone is warned about this proposed change, so there's no
> way for us to avoid the risk that valuable user data would be deleted.
>
> Therefore, we should reject this proposal.
>
> In general, we should be *very* reluctant to delete files that we know
> nothing about.  We should be reluctant to do it even if there were a
> very compelling reason for it.  Simply wanting to clean up to avoid
> unsightly clutter falls far short of a compelling reason.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>       Mark
>
>
+1 totally agree


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Vincent Legoll

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