Whether using a dependency system at all for the purpose of ordering and expressing relationships between daemons is the best approach is beyond the scope of th

Whether using a dependency system at all for the purpose of ordering and expressing relationships between daemons is the best approach is beyond the scope of this reply, but I just want to say that most modern sysvinit deployments did in fact have service dependencies, through the use of LSB initscript headers that were parsed by insserv(8). It was kludgy, but there.