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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:22:55AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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).

Ahh optional dependencies...  that could be done pretty easily, I think

Seth

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