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Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>
>| Whereas with a PROVIDES/REQUIRES, the system would understand the
>| actual dependencies and could potentially run most of the shutdown 
>| scripts in parallel, which could be a major win IMO -- keeping in
>| mind that a lot of the shutting down will be waiting.
>
>  You can also start up items in parallel.
>
>	-Fred

Yeah, I was thinking about this after I sent the last email, you
could have a -j flag equivalent, which would be especially useful
on SMP machines in the future.

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