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Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism



On 05 Jul 2001 at 23:55 (+1000), Anthony Towns wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:35:17PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
| > Why are runlevels specified? If I choose to run a system that doesn't use
| > runlevels, why should ISV's software break? If I choose to give different
| > meanings to the first 6 runlevels, why should ISV's software break?
| 
| More additionally than relatedly, but the facility names section doesn't
| seem entirely clear either.
| 
| If I have scripts /etc/init.d/foo and /etc/init.d/bar in my .lsb
| package (with names allocated by LANANANANANA [0]), can I just put a "#
| Required-Start: foo" in bar, or do I also need a "# Provides: foo" in foo?

you must have a Provides: line if the script Provides a facility
that any other script Requires, otherwise, how is the dependency
to be resolved?

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