mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu says:
> That's just patently absurd.  There are plenty of times that I, as the
> person who *wrote* the code that just changed, know bloody well that I
> don't need to run `make depend' again, and I would be rather annoyed to
> have to wait for it.

Completely agreed. However, this brings up an interesting question --
why is "make depend" so slow on NetBSD? Maybe its my imagination, but
I could swear that "make depend" takes many times longer on a NetBSD
machine than on a comparable BSDI 1.1 machine.

Perry