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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:31:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990202123155.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199902012228.OAA12331@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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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

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