On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 +0100,
Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:
>> I know, it makes it even harder to see what the initialization order
>> is. Some are controlled by the Makefile/subdirs order, some by special
>> calls in the code.
>
>Just to repeat myself: This is clearly a problem for tsort(1): Give
>restrictions of the form "This has to come after that" (perhaps a special
>comment at the start of the file containing the init function?), tsort that
>and pick the order out of the result. Should be a few lines of script. No
>central repository for the dependencies, no messing around with half the
>world to fix dependencies. Plus they become explicit, which they aren't
>today.
Just to repeat myself: That is exactly what I want to do. Linus vetoed
it in October 2000.
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