Re: RFC: proposal for indirect deplibs

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

   [definitions]

my head is already swimming because "dependent", "dependency" and
"dependence" all are very subtly different and have different
meanings in different contexts.

i like the term "upstream" and "downstream" because a moment's
thought in comparison w/ the real-world (physical) motion of water
shows what is upstream affects what is downstream, but not the
other way around.

unfortunately, i have no suggestion on how to adapt these terms to
things that are mutually-dependent.

as for the rest of the text, IIUC you are proposing a way to
explicitly distguish direct from indirect.  how about also
distiguishing between "fatal-indirect" and "non-fatal-indirect"?
(i presume lack of direct is always fatal.)

thi