On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:34:18AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Well, it was an example. Another example involving X would be if you > use a font server. > Other examples could be ppp, which on my system would have to wait > until fcdsl is loaded, while on other systems might wait for setserial > to run and the serial device be available. In some cases, bind9 might > need to wait until all your network devices are up (if you run it as > non-root), so it would have to wait for ppp, but not in all setups. > Services accessed as CGI scripts through apache (think zope, possibly > schoolbell) should cause apache2 | httpd-server to wait for them. > Those are a few examples why I think we need dynamic and not just > static dependencies. X was just an easy target. Which of these can't be handled as opportunistic dependencies, though? The proposed implementation provided means for specifying services that should be started first *if* they're available. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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