Re: between S49blowfish and S50 oracle...
Presumably, we would look into dependancies, rather than simple
ordering.  If all I have in init.d/7.d is "Sfoo", but foo depends
on oracle, bananas, and three other packages, they are looked for
and started - if they fail, they are killed, and the state change
fails.

Or something like that.  Clearly, smarter systems would help.

-s