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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> ... I think this is still the simplest model we can use
> without trying to really do a topo-sort. And in many ways it's the
> simplest one to explain to people too: "we try to use the oldest
> reference we can find as a base for the resulting name" is not a
> complex or hard concept to explain.

Yes, the more I look at Dscho's patch, the more like it exactly for
that reason.  Its behaviour is very simple from the end-user's point
of view, unlike the historical one.