On Fr, 17.09.21 19:04, Kenneth Porter (sh...@sewingwitch.com) wrote: 65;6402;1c > --On Friday, September 17, 2021 12:49 PM +0200 Lennart Poettering > <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > > > more specific example: you can use apache without mysql, and you can > > use mysql without apache, but quite often they are used together, and > > if so you likely want to start mysql first, and apache second, since > > it likely consumes services of mysql, and not the other way > > round. Hence in this example, you'd place an ordering dep, but not > > requirement dep. > > Would such an ordering dependency without a requirements dependency allow > apache to start without mysql?
Yes. > Or does an ordering dependency imply a > requirements dependency? No. > In which case, could systemd automatically infer > the requirements from the ordering? No. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin
