> Sophisticated dependencies are nice to have What are you talking about? Make does not deal with "sophisticated" dependencies. Make is insultingly simple, no

> Sophisticated dependencies are nice to have What are you talking about? Make does not deal with "sophisticated" dependencies. Make is insultingly simple, not sophisticated at all. It's just a damn directed tree. The simplest data structure in computer science after the array. There are also some fancier shortcuts for expressing rules in makefiles, but you can ignore them and use only the simple stuff. That's already a much more powerful tool than "just".