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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:34:36AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > If the "nfs" script is not executable (i.e. disabled), will autofs still 
> > be
> able
> > to start? I'm asking because this sounds like a bug in our script
> dependencies,
> > but not everyone uses NFS, but they might use autofs, and I don't want to
> break
> > one just to fix the other.
> > 
> > -sandalle
> 
> You mean to add some sort of missing or non-executable dependency logic
> that automatically turns on a disabled dependency?  I could see this
> happening so long as we sent an note to the system log.  A true missing
> dependency should never happen because the dependency will be written
> into our spell dependency system, but perhaps we should look into what
> should be done in that case as well.

Not turns on the disabled dependency, but continues if the dependency is
disabled, such as a 'WANTS="nfs"', where autofs will start after nfs if it's
enabled, but otherwise ignore nfs (if it's disabled/not installed).

-sandalle

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