On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Lee Burton <lburton@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Append is okay (most likely dependencies are already in place for a > service), but it would be nice to specify dependencies / ensure > necessary services are running. We should allow the module writer / > administrator to specify these dependencies so they can specify custom > depends/etc. The logic should allow one to specify logical "or" > statements (say wicd vs network manager vs netcfg vs network) and > should try to place the puppet configured service after all of its > dependencies adding them to the line if possible (OR statements may > make this hard... perhaps a default to add if one isn't present?) or > producing some sort of error/exception. The point should be to give > the admin full control of what happens to his / her rc.conf ;) > -Lee > > I agree, the admin should have the ability to manage the service loading sequence. I think that this could be done with require statements, simply saying that if a service requires another service then it is placed at an earlier index in the DAEMON array.
