[Werner Fink] > Hmmm ... the facility $all is well documented in the manual page > of inserv: > > Beside the defined System Facilities in the configuration file > /etc/insserv.conf, insserv also knows the special facility $all. > This facility indicates that a service should be inserted at the > end of all services. Clearly all services using this facility > will be grouped into one starting order.
The problem is that its behaviour is contra-intuitive. > changing this behaviour would break a lot of here in openSUSE. If I > change this and break the hard functional specification from the > development team I would run into trouble here. Are you sure a lot of scripts depend on stuff depending on $all? It could be said to be a depdendency loop. :) > Maybe I should add a warning or an error for things like > done in the script `c' above. That would be a good start, to at least be able to warn us that are surprised by the current behaviour. I would argue that unless $all is defined as a set separator, there is a loop in the dependency specified in my initial email, ie a <- $all <- b <- c <- $all <- b (and so on) > Any comments and/or opinions from your side? A warning when a dependency loop involving $all is seen would be nice as a start, but I really believe the current behaviour is non-intuitive and confusing and should be changed to become more intuitive and less confusing. > PS: There is no need to cite my PhD as prefere in the most case my > first name (beside this my PhD was done in theoretical physics > not in computer since:) ... Ack. I assumed it was to be used as it is in your email address. Was not sure if it was important for you, so I tried to make sure I included it. Will adjust accordingly. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
