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> I never did get used to running make on my config files.

I worked in a very Make oriented place. If you need to do any processing on files, which not only includes compiling them, but also pushing them to other servers, and loading them into memory on those servers, that should be done with Make. Because Make makes things :)

Now I'd rather write a Makefile than use whatever language's builder of the week. Make can make things, why do I need anything else?