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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
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On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:47 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 17 October 2012 14:42, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Also, perform at least a perfunctory cleaning of unified build directories
> > when reconfiguring since many packages don't have the right dependency
> > rules to cause a recompile when this happens.  Making distclean is not
> > practical since many packages either don't support it at all, or remove
> > too much (e.g. polkit blows away its documentation which causes the
> > subsequent license check to fail).
> 
> Would you consider splitting this into a separate commit?

Yes, no problem.

p.