In message <20051122215324.GB24186@netbsd.org>, Bill Studenmund writes:
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>How do you think we should encode dependencies? I agree that the FreeBSD
>way is uncentralized. However someone who studies the whole system can
>tune it so that things get loaded in the right order (just pick the right
>set of "FIRST", "SECOND", and so on). How would we do that w/o the master
>list of values?
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Thinking out loud -- something like rc.d uses?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb