Execution order matters: if plugin A depends on plugin B, it usually means that plugin B does stuff which plugin A requires. However, Pico loads plugins in alphabetical order, so events might get fired on plugin A before plugin B.
Hence plugins need to be sorted. Pico sorts plugins using a dependency topology, this means that it moves all plugins, on which a plugin depends, in front of that plugin. The order isn't touched apart from that, so they are still sorted alphabetically, as long as this doesn't interfere with the dependency topology. Circular dependencies are being ignored; their behavior is undefiend. Missing dependencies are being ignored until you try to enable the dependant plugin.
This method bases on [Marc J. Schmidt's Topological Sort library](https://github.com/marcj/topsort.php) in version 1.1.0, licensed under the MIT license. It uses the `ArraySort` implementation ([class `\MJS\TopSort\Implementations\ArraySort`](https://github.com/marcj/topsort.php/blob/1.1.0/src/Implementations/ArraySort.php)).