On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:55 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:Yes, it is a sequence. It it derived from real dependencies though,
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The init-script dependencies are specifies already - at least on debian.
These are not dependencies but "only" the sequence of startup (and it is
not only Debian but also Fedora/RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake and probably all
except Gentoo).
Yuo get a much stricter ordering and sorting (and thus much simpler toCorrect.
implement in a shell script).
This would be a win (especially if the numbers are tweked to tune this)Now that is a really good idea. Init could simply run "make -j init2" to
with a relatively small effort.
However for real dependencies and parallelism you want the info similar
to creat a Makefile from it (i.e. the explicit dependency from service X
to service Y). As a consequence you can get rid of the numbers (since
they are not needed any more).