> Is this a bootstrapping issue? If so, having a generated file in
> version control is likely an inevitability.

The issue could be avoided if we could teach opam that some .opam files are generated. For example, opam could ask dune to build all .opam files with $ dune builld @opam. If we wanted something more build system agnostic, we could also just check-in a list of all package file names. Opam could then ask the $build-system to build all of them.