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@suetanvil that might have been Debian's sysvinit mod, I'm not sure if they used startpar in "make-like" mode or if it was literally a makefile. the reasoning sounds closer to systemd's though, as parallel sysvinit didn't change /what/ was being launched, whereas systemd integrated like five different kinds of on-demand activation into the init system, so that many services no longer had to be started upfront (e.g. it kind of re-popularized inetd style services)