In message <20000424114620.A13961@noc.untraceable.net>, Andrew Brown writes:
>you know...we could give them colors instead of numbers: blue for
>single user, green for multi-user, orange for rebooting, red for
>halting, and black for powering down.  would that be better?  :)

I'd like to be able to create arbitrarily-named things similar-to-runlevels,
which could inherit from each other.  Thus, I could say

	runlevel standard {
		start net;
		start foo;
		start bar;
	}

	runlevel xdm {
		inherit standard;
		start xdm;
	}

	runlevel netless {
		inherit standard;
		stop net;
	}

and things like that.  

I also want this to magically run efficiently on a VAX 11/730.

-s