On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 03:16:34 +0100 Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arch's init system is completely ignorant of dependencies. Depends on how you look at it, I guess. I see the explicit ordering and backgrounding of daemons (done by the user) in rc.conf as a (very crude) form of "dependency/parallelisation optimisation". Dieter