Rewrite the core parts in C. We now provide librc so other programs can

query runlevels, services and state without using bash. We also provide
libeinfo so other programs can easily use our informational functions.

As such, we have dropped the requirement of using bash as the init script
shell. We now use /bin/sh and have strived to make the scripts as portable
as possible. Shells that work are bash and dash. busybox works provided
you disable s-s-d. If you have WIPE_TMP set to yes in conf.d/bootmisc you
should disable find too.
zsh and ksh do not work at this time.

Networking support is currently being re-vamped also as it was heavily bash
array based. As such, a new config format is available like so
config_eth0="1.2.3.4/24 5.6.7.8/16"
or like so
config_eth0="'1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0' '5.6.7.8 netmask 255.255.0.0'"

We will still support the old bash array format provided that /bin/sh IS
a link it bash.

ChangeLog for baselayout-1 can be found in our SVN repo.

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+.TH "BASELAYOUT" "8" "March 2007" "baselayout" "baselayout"
+.SH NAME
+rc-depend \ - resolve init script dependencies
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBrc-depend\fR \fI-ineed\fR \fI-iuse\fR \fIservice\fR ...
+.br
+\fBrc-depend\fR \fI--notrace\fR \fI-iprovide\fR \fIservice\fR ...
+.br
+\fBrc-depend\fR \fI-needsme\fR \fIservice\fR ...
+.br
+\fBrc-depend\fR \fI--update\fR
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Gentoos init system uses service dependencies to depend on other services.
+Rather than just starting in a set order, we start and stop in the order
+defined by the services themselves.
+For example, most services require local disks to be mounted and as such can
+depend on the localmount service. Others depend on and net and dns and will
+only start when those dependencies have been satisfied.
+
+One issue of note is that a service can provide another service, which is more
+generic. A good example of this is that net.lo and any service linked to it 
+provide "net", which a few services depend on. You can of course have a few
+network interfaces: modern laptops have 3 being loopback, wired and wireless.
+What makes this more interesting is that it could be setup so that both wired
+and wireless are optional. So we work out provided services like so :-
+
+1) Always use any services in the runlevel.
+.br
+2) If no services are defined in the runlevel then use any running services
+that satisfy the provide.
+.br
+3) Append any services in the boot runlevel.
+
+\fBrc-order\fR is primarily used internally by Gentoo and is not meant as an
+end-user or admin tool. This man page is purely to describe its function.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+\fB--deptree \fIdeptree\fR
+Use this \fIdeptree\fR instead of the default one,
+\fI/lib/rcscripts/init.d/deptree\fR.
+.TP
+\fB--notrace\fR
+Just show the dependencies for the specified services without working out
+anything extra.
+.TP
+\fB--strict\fR
+For provided services, depend on all of them in the runlevel instead of just
+ones that are started.
+.TP
+\fB--update\fR
+Force an update of the dependency tree. Normally this is not needed as we
+automatically update the dependency tree if any files in /etc/init.d or
+/etc/conf.d are newer than the tree.
+.TP
+\fB-dependency_type\fR
+Work with the specified dependency type, such as \fIineed\fR, \fIiafter\fR,
+\fIneedsme\fR.
+If none are supplied we default to \fIineed\fR and \fIiuse\fR.
+.SH NOTES
+When needsme depends on a provided service, like net, we don't do any
+mapping to an actual service unless it's the last one up. So if net.lo and
+net.eth0 are started then neither are returned. If net.eth0 then stops then
+every service that needs net then has net.lo in its needsme list so that
+we net.lo stops it brings down all services that depend on net.
+.SH BUGS
+Provided services are calculated at runtime. The current downside of this
+approach means that if you do "after net; before net.lo" and net.lo provides
+net then you can get into an sticky loop where services hang.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR rc-update (8),
+.BR rc-status (8)