On 28 Mar 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> <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.

	Or the option to run scripts in parallel :)

		David/absolute