Dependencies

[Scott James Remnant]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 16:30 -0400, Sean E. Russell wrote:

> > > Also, I'd like a pointer to any discussion about conditional use cases. 
> ...
> > Cups is a hard one. I'd say it should either watch the network on it's
> 
> Well, Cups was just an example.  The Gentoo init scripts are full of examples 
> of services which have conditional requirements.  The idea is that there's a 
> mechanism for saying "if this service is going to be started, then wait for 
> it to start.  Otherwise, just start now."
> 
Could be an interesting problem mapping to an event-driven scenario, how
do you know that a service is "going to be started later" ?

Scott
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