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Clarifies that the depends_on short syntax does not wait for services to become healthy, and waits only for them to be started (running).

This aligns with the long syntax section, which defines service_started as equivalent to the short syntax, and with the Control startup and shutdown order manual:

On startup, Compose does not wait until a container is "ready", only until it's running.

Confirmed locally that short syntax behaves equivalently to condition: service_started.

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