The point of making the default "semi-silent" (each target is printed,
but not the entire invocation verbatim) was to factor out information
about invocation to a one-time target (info) and not repeating it ever
again. With V=1, the info target is silent, because each command
invocation will be printed verbatim, which needs no herald.
The undesired side effect of me introducing the info target and making
it a dependency of the default all target is that info doesn't respect
the --silent make option, so in this use case it was more noisy, not
less.
I believe the most elegant solution that satisfies all use cases is to
stop printing info unconditionally, and instead list it explicitly in
make invocations in CI, together with the all target. Then this info is
kept available for inspection from logs, but it's not repeated on each
invocation. The intention was to make the logs easier to read and scroll
in search for new compiler warnings.
Mariotaku