The traditional way of ordering init.d scripts is to have two-digit numbers for the symlinks in /etc/rc*d directories. It seems pretty clear to me that a dependency based scheme would work better here. Switching from one to the other could, I think, be done gradually, given sufficient magic and hair, but it is a big change that is going to touch a great many packages.
I would like to work on making this happen for etch. I don't have an implementation yet, let alone a plan for how to do it, and I won't start work until after sarge is released, so this is just a heads-up for the release team. Anyone who wants to tell me this is a really bad idea, or has suggestions on the implementation, please mail me in private or take this thread to -devel. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]