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Re:What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspec... by paulddraper on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:27AM (#18325265)
Not exactly.

GNU Make's order only dependency is different than what is described.

If `foo` is requested, `ordering` will be requested.

However the last modified time of `ordering` will not affect whether `foo` is rebuilt.

There's no analogy of the last modified caching of make products to in it systems here

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