In message <Pine.NEB.4.02.9810130955410.6963-100000@ascetic.portal.ca>, Curt Sa
mpson writes:
>If you can implement runlevels with another feature, why add run
>levels as well? Aside from wanting to confuse the user?

I wouldn't want to add runlevels to the system-as-shipped, but if we had
groups of things, it would be trivial for people who want runlevels to
make groups with the right properties.

Thus, I consider the "groups of services" to be an improvement on runlevels
by virtue of generality.

-s