Michael G Schwern wrote in perl.makemaker :
> I take that back.  Having distclean deleting files would be a Very Bad Thing.
> Consider the case where you've just added a few new source files to the
> dist but haven't added it to the manifest.  You (or perhaps some build tool)
> runs "make distclean" and poof! new files gone.

Not mentioning .svn and CVS dirs and everything that is usually in
MANIFEST.SKIP.

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