Re: Terminology changes for update-alternatives

Justin B Rye <[email protected]> writes:

> if "primary/secondary" is no good there are variants like "major/minor",
> but I think the one I'd have expected to be a front-runner is "main
> link" and "subsidiary link", with the latter abbreviating to "Sublinks:"
> and "--sub".

leader/follower is the other option that came to my mind, and that I think
captures the nature of the secondary links (that they follow the
configuration of the primary link).  That's what I think tow is trying to
get at (and I agree that tow reads oddly in English, as a word that I
wouldn't expect to see in a technical context and for which the analogy is
not immediately obvious).