Subject: Re: The new rc.d stuff...
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/28/2000 10:18:20
<mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> (Mason Loring Bliss) writes:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 09:23:32PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
> > } # PROVIDE: atalkd
> > } # REQUIRE: xdm
> > 
> > Silly question, but why is a filesystem daemon dependent on an X daemon?
> 
> The atalkd stuff takes an obscenely long time to return, so I did this in
> order to be able to log in via X without having to wait.

Sounds like you want a way to express some sort of weighted preference
among non-dependant scripts.

        - Nathan