fix(contribs): revert back to make <action>.<program>
syntax instead of the opposite
#2353
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Please, can we take a bit of care when modifying the syntaxes of our makefile commands?
They may not break code, but they break documentation and user flows. We can add a CI check as well; I see this for another PR as this is a hotfix. (Currently, running
make install
/make install.gnodev
in the top-level directory doesn't work; because @moul inverted these in #1945). This is still not a substitute for a bit of good ol' attention in recognising when something is user-facing and thus should be changed with a bit more care and reason.Note, I'm NOT saying that we should not change things, as we are before any 1.0 so we should change anything that makes sense; but it is a good practice that when changing a flag, command, etc., to do a global search for the old syntax to see examples where old documentation or untested code is broken.