Makefile improvement suggestions

[ncdc]

/kind feature

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to propose some changes to our Makefile targets:

• If I'm compiling locally, I only want the clientsets/listers/informers regenerated as-needed; in other words, do not regenerate every time I run any sort of build-related target. The same applies to the go generate output.
• If I'm compiling locally, I only want to deal with dep as-needed; in other words, do not run dep ensure unless I explicitly ask for it.

tl;dr: try to speed up builds by switching targets that aren't needed frequently to optional/opt-in instead of as dependencies

Anything else you would like to add:
N/A

[asauber]

cc myself

[ncdc]

Much of this has been cleaned up in master. If there's anything left over, I'll either open a new issue, or just file PRs 😄

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@ncdc: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Much of this has been cleaned up in master. If there's anything left over, I'll either open a new issue, or just file PRs 😄

/close

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