Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/06/2000 14:19:21
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:06:49AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:

 > I feel that this may end up in with far more complex dependancy rules;
 > there was some stuff using BEFORE when the target should have REQUIREd
 > it instead. It was starting to get messy, and IIRC, there was the
 > potential for making things more difficult to insert the
 > afore-mentioned third party scripts (although I can't currently recall
 > the scenario I ran into then).

IMO, things should only REQUIRE somethiung if they actually *require*
it to be running.  Securelevel doesn't *require* networking, but the
networking code should be set up *before* securelevel is raised.

Just seems like a more logical way of thinking aobut it.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>