On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:07:46AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > On debian-devel there has been talk about a better setup with dpkg-like > > dependancies. This is a good thing. You don't have to bother with at > > which priority to place a new service. You can just say "this service > > must be started after networking and name services are available". > > Oh, this would really rock if it would work for xdm; if I could say "only > start xdm once getty has grabbed all the virtual consoles listed for this > runlevel in inittab."
Please coordinate with Hurd author Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He is thinking of such a beast for the Hurd, and he can share you his ideas (and in fact, chances are that Debian GNU/Hurd would use this setup right from the beginning). (the hurd currently uses a primitive BSD style and has no runlevel concept) (I am in progress of porting sort-of sysvinit to the hurd as an interim solution, but a makefile style'ish setup is the long term goal). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
