You are right, jeeves doesn't do that. Your example reminds me of how I first learnt to use Make; I built my LaTeX stuff from source when in university. Howeve

You are right, jeeves doesn't do that. Your example reminds me of how I first learnt to use Make; I built my LaTeX stuff from source when in university. However, dealing with Python mostly in my time in the industry, I scarcely ever had the need to use these particular features of Make. I used it as a task runner, guilty of that, — and that's what I wanted to reimplement in Python. Even writing in Rust, everything I have to do is `cargo build`, — there is no need to write Makefiles for building the project. I will consider changing that wording to set proper expectations, but I still feel that for me "a Pythonic alternative to Make" perfectly conveys the use case I daily employ this thing for.