Setting silent deps to run and fail first

Hello sho, eford, jyhsu, 

Please review the following commits I made in branch 'jeremy-reqsfirst'.

8b8c18d847ac4dfc814b8b2e66a3a2036e456660 (2013-02-20 13:11:47 -0800)
Setting silent deps to run and fail first

R=sho
R=eford
R=jyhsu