diff --git a/core/main.mk b/core/main.mk
index 06a1fdf..81e2e31 100644
--- a/core/main.mk
+++ b/core/main.mk
@@ -774,23 +774,13 @@
 findbugs: $(INTERNAL_FINDBUGS_HTML_TARGET) $(INTERNAL_FINDBUGS_XML_TARGET)
 
 .PHONY: clean
-dirs_to_clean := \
-	$(PRODUCT_OUT) \
-	$(TARGET_COMMON_OUT_ROOT) \
-	$(HOST_OUT) \
-	$(HOST_COMMON_OUT_ROOT)
 clean:
-	@for dir in $(dirs_to_clean) ; do \
-	    echo "Cleaning $$dir..."; \
-	    rm -rf $$dir; \
-	done
-	@echo "Clean."; \
-
-.PHONY: clobber
-clobber:
 	@rm -rf $(OUT_DIR)
 	@echo "Entire build directory removed."
 
+.PHONY: clobber
+clobber: clean
+
 # The rules for dataclean and installclean are defined in cleanbuild.mk.
 
 #xxx scrape this from ALL_MODULE_NAME_TAGS