[PLUG] Re: LSB and initscripts

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

Steve Beattie <steve at wirex.net> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:44:00PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > Debian's runlevel configuration is poorly done, as of the present.
> > (It will be much improved by the dependancy based setup mandated by
> > the LSB.)
> 
> Hmm? I just recently looked at the LSB and it appeared to me that it
> required SysV style run-levels. I've wanted a dependency based setup for
> quite a while after hearing David Parsons and Richard Gooch propose them.
> Pointers to where the LSB currently does or will require this in the
> future appreciated.

Oh really?  For some reason I thought they mandated that...  Guess
not.  It's that the init scripts are supposed to contain specially
formatted comment headers that contain that dependancy information.

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