[Buildroot] [PATCH] core: do not remove dl/ directory on distclean

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Yann,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:55:49PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Currently, if the dl/ directory is the default location, it is removed
> on distclean.
> 
> However, the dl/ directory is a precious location: it contains all the
> tarballs downloaded so far, and some can be relatively huge, taking some
> previous time to re-download, especially on slowish links.
> 
> Don't remove it on distclean. If the user really needs to regain some
> space, leave it to him to clean this directory up manually.

Current Makefile help text for 'distclean' says:

  delete all non-source files (including .config)

Not deleting the dl/ directory is not consistent with this description, IMO.

baruch

> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> ---
>  Makefile | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 027f21c..5d840f6 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -901,9 +901,6 @@ clean:
>  		$(LEGAL_INFO_DIR) $(GRAPHS_DIR)
>  
>  distclean: clean
> -ifeq ($(DL_DIR),$(TOPDIR)/dl)
> -	rm -rf $(DL_DIR)
> -endif
>  ifeq ($(O),output)
>  	rm -rf $(O)
>  endif

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