From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 18:02:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21348 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21339 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:02:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00789; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:31:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902012228.OAA12331@pau-amma.whistle.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:31:55 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Feb-99 David Wolfskill wrote: > So switch the logic: the "foo" script should be able to tell a > sufficiently interested inquirer what services it depends on. > > If some of those have additional dependencies... well, I think we know > how to do transitive closure on such dependency graphs. Hmmm.. how about getting the actual knobs committed and worry about the dependancy stuff later? :) The problem with this stuff seems to be that everyone gets stuck on the 'ooh, the dependancy stuff will suck' while not realising that 80% of the time it won't be needed.. Perhaps we could also start making the files written into $PREFIX/etc/rc.d follow this standard as a start, and then do the /etc/rc* stuff. Just my $0.02 of course. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message