Am Dienstag, 3. August 2010, 18:24:09 schrieb Steve Langasek: > ... only between services that have declared a dependency relationship, > which should obviously *not* be started in parallel.
In the example given by Petter, dhcpd runtime-depends on pdns through some configuration option. This is not a package dependency. And the only reason the ordered runtime dependency exists is because dhcpd cannot handle the fact that the DNS server is not running. So once dhcpd is fixed to only return its results after having successfully contacted the DNS server, the runtime dependency loses its ordering requirement, allowing pdns to be started at any time after dhcpd without waiting for some (potentially buggy and never returning) init.d script to finish. Depending on the type of daemon, there might already be some functions offered at this point (e.g., logging) while more functions are being offered once the dependency service has also been started (e.g., query interface). What am I missing here? Josef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008031902.12711.2...@kuarepoti-dju.net
