[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Script sequence numbers

Thomas Hood jdthood at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jan 23 14:24:25 UTC 2006


Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>  I believe it is a bad idea because I believe assigning the numbers
> dynamically based on provided dependency information is a much better
> idea.


Well, they are both good ideas in theory but I agree with Petter that it's
a bit late to be implementing a registry now, when we are finally planning
to get rid of sequence numbers.


> I do not see the gain of separating the boot sequence into such
> categories, if we want the boot to be as fast as possible.


I think that Ubuntu does it so that they can show a simplified boot screen
that lists a small number of stages.
-- 
Thomas



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