rcorder for Linux

[Dan Martin]

> I've recently been playing with FreeBSD for work, and I 
> notice that they use a nice system to determine daemon load 
> order. Each daemon specifies what it needs (say, 'REQUIRE:
> networking' or 'PROVIDE: dns') in a specific syntax, and then 
> the rcorder program goes through and figures out the proper 
> load order: a daemon that REQUIREs networking, for instance, 
> will load after one that PROVIDEs networking.

Gentoo also works as BSD does.  Not surprising, I guess, considering
Gentoo's portage was an adaptation of BSD ports.  I miss that aspect of
Gentoo.