Indirect Dependencies are also known as which term?

• A. Direct Dependencies
• B. Transitive or sub-dependencies
• C. Dependents
• D. Dependencies

Answer: (B)

Indirect dependencies are the ones you don’t declare directly in your project, but that get pulled in through other dependencies you do declare. They’re called transitive or sub-dependencies because they sit further down the dependency graph, coming from a chain of dependencies. Direct dependencies are the ones you specify yourself in your manifest. Dependents refer to packages that rely on your project. Simply calling something a dependency doesn’t specify whether it’s direct or indirect, so the precise term for indirect ones is transitive or sub-dependencies.