site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:04 PM, seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote: = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I just don't think it's a good tool for the very early bootstrapping phase of system startup, because there's a lot of existing programs that need some kind of dependency-checking functionality provided externally.

From a design

standpoint, I'm not even sure they're wrong; that seems like the kind of code that's tricky enough that we shouldn't have to have fifty separate implementations. I still don't understand where you think that all this code that has to be added to applications to "check dependencies" comes from. But at any rate, the first assertion you make here is manifestly nonsense; the system is largely bootstrapped (and will be more largely bootstrapped as time goes on) by launchd. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com