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

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

Hi,

 > ... we could (should?) consider that dl/ is a special case. It really
 > holds content that can be difficult to retrieve.

 > Think of a tarball made from a git clone from a Linux kernel for
 > example. This can be really costly to download, especially on slow
 > links. For example:

 > Downloaded  Repo
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > 1.02 GiB    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
 > 1.43 GiB    git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git


 > But Oh well... I'm not impacted as I have BR2_DL_DIR in my environment
 > pointing somehwere else and reliable... I find it just sad that
 > unsuspecting users, especially newcomers) would hit that when told to
 > start over from scratch...

But aren't those people using 'make clean' instead of 'make distclean'?
They should.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard