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[Simon J. Gerraty]

Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Some questions about this commit, which I'm sure more people must have:

Sure, good questions and as you say, many likely thinking the same.

> * Was it really necessary to commit hundreds of clearly generated files?

Short answer is "yes" - since they are actually what makes the build
work.

> * Couldn't these be generated on the fly, or with some "make depend" like command?

The whole point is to avoid that overhead.

> * How to update these files, if you change anything in the 'real' Makefiles?

For now don't worry about it, those of us that want to build/play with
meta mode will take care of updating them.

Simply building in meta mode is all that is needed to update them.

> * Or are you now the maintainer of these .depend files? :-)

For now, yes.  
I think that's the only reasonable approach at this early stage.

Thanks
--sjg