commit: c46adf14343df3a74aef7e4ae5be175ae5fa7a01 Author: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs <AT> gmail <DOT> com> AuthorDate: Fri Sep 22 21:20:41 2017 +0000 Commit: William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Sep 22 21:24:20 2017 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/openrc.git/commit/?id=c46adf14
man/openrc-run.8: Clarify the explanation of the need dependency man/openrc-run.8 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/openrc-run.8 b/man/openrc-run.8 index 2e3ec728..471f63e5 100644 --- a/man/openrc-run.8 +++ b/man/openrc-run.8 @@ -217,8 +217,10 @@ that dependency type to the function, or prefix the names with ! to remove them from the dependencies. .Bl -tag -width "RC_DEFAULTLEVEL" .It Ic need -The service will refuse to start until needed services have started and it -will refuse to stop until any services that need it have stopped. +The service will attempt to start any services it needs regardless of +whether they have been added to the runlevel. It will refuse to start +until all services it needs have started, and it will refuse to stop until all +services that need it have stopped. .It Ic use The service will attempt to start any services it uses that have been added to the runlevel.
