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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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>From terry@lambert.org Wed Sep 27 18:45:12 1995
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 15:36:42 -0700 (MST)
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> > Are the any other problems that the Makefile method does not solve/address?

> The case of the missing dependency.

> If I have package B installed and it depends on package A, but package
> A is not installed, then a make will fail at generation of the package
> A startup, when instead it should fail the generation of the package B
> startup (but still generate a valid rc file).

Actually, it will still generate correctly, but will fail at boot
time since A is not runable.

Which is what I would consider the correct behavior.

-coranth

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