From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 15 1:43:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net (maynard.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11AAD37B403 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.138.115.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.138.115]) by maynard.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA22738; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:43:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B29CABE.E8852EC3@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:43:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Way Cc: Cyrille Lefevre , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system References: <20010613202415.A3689@core.usrlib.org> <4rtjnv83.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> <20010614140208.A32012@ns1.ecoutez.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Way wrote: > i don't have the code in front of me, but basically it went like this > > nfs: PROVIDE: nfs REQUIRE: nfsd statd lockd > nfsd: PROVIDE nfsd REQUIRED portmap mountd > statd: PROVIDE statd REQUIRE nfsd FWIW: sendmail does not _require_ DNS, but it operates better in the presence of DNS, even though it can provide degraded service without it. The same goes for sendmail's need for syslogd. Thus there are both hard and soft requirements. Lack of soft requirements means degraded, but functional service (e.g. lack of NIS does not mean you should not start getty on the console to permit root logins). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message