Horst H. von Brand wrote:
What is missing IMVHO is the ability of handling service
dependencies, but
that one is very tricky. For example, it mostly makes no sense to run a
mail/web/... server if there is no network, but the minority of cases where
it does make sense is sizeable nonetheless. And trying to cater for both
cases rapidly gets to be an unmanageable mess.
What should be discussed are only serious *requirements* in the init scripts
dependencies. In the example you gave here it makes no sense to prevent the web
server from running because of no network because it could serve a purpose and
it does function that way (and can be turned off if the user did not want it
running). A dependency should be only what is absolutely required for basic
functionality so that if it is turned on it has the *capability of starting*.
It should be a much more manageable mess when the bare bones basics are figured out.
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