Glad I'm not the only person who thinks upstart is back-assward. I've never understood how its model of "start a service iff all its dependencies are running" makes any sense: it (a) starts random other services I don't care about, just because their dependencies are met, and (b) forces me to manually track down and start all of a service's dependencies in order to start it.
Though I'd be glad if someone could explain to me how it does make sense.
(a) makes sense because it is assumed that if you have the job enabled, you want it to be started. If you do not care about those services, just disable them.
Though I'd be glad if someone could explain to me how it does make sense.