Gentoo - running scripts at startup

[Marianne Taylor]

On September 7, 2003 17:35, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Sunday 07 September 2003 06:44 pm, Marianne Taylor wrote:
> > Then howcome it was running iptables before network?  Just by renaming
> > iptables to p-iptables I was able to get it running?
>
> If you don't use the dependency mechanism, then the rc scripts are executed
> based on alphabetical order. It really sucks too. Personally, I think this
> porion of gentoo should be overhauled and re-written to work something
> along the lines of good old fashioned system V startup scripts as
> implemented in Open Linux...
>
> Cheers.
Agreed, at least those I understand.  
What do you mean the dependency mechanism?