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Replying to my own message.

In summary, the main things the scheme I describe gives us are:

- control over startup/shutdown order with the numbers
- accomodates older scripts (by just not having the K script
     linked to the S, script things wont be started again at
     shutdown time).
- enough similarity to SYSV to not confuse
- ability to easily disable scripts (rename to not start with S[0-9]
     or K[0-9])


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