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Use sensible flags for ghc -M

The ghc -M dependency analyser requires you to specify flags in a very obscure way:

  ghc -M -opt-dep-f -opt-depFunnyMakefile -optdep-include-pkg-deps

Simon M writes: "It's historical (because mkdependHS used to be a separate script), but we can't just remove it because there's overlap between the -optdep options and the main GHC options. I don't mind introducing new names for the relevant options."

So the task is to decide names for the flags, implement the change, and document it.

(Currently DriverMkDepend.hs does its own flaggery.)

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