return type;
    }

    /**
     * Selects the type of path where to place the given dependency.
     * This method returns one of the values specified in the given collection.
     * This method does not handle the patch-module paths, because the patches
     * depend on which modules have been previously added on the module-paths.
     *
     * <p>If the dependency can be a constituent of both the class-path and the module-path,