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@@ -46,3 +46,48 @@ beyond the ready/depends-exact branch point, so the results should be
 equally valid.)
 
 --[[smcv]]
+
+> We discussed this on irc; I had some worries that things may have been
+> switched to `add_depends_exact` that were not pure page names. My current
+> feeling is it's all safe, but who knows. It's easy to miss something.
+> Which makes me think this is not a good interface.
+> 
+> Why not, instead, make `add_depends` smart. If it's passed something
+> that is clearly a raw page name, it can add it to the exact depends hash.
+> Else, add it to the pagespec hash. You can tell if it's a pure page name
+> by matching on `$config{wiki_file_regexp}`.
+
+>> Good thinking. Done in commit 68ce514a 'Auto-detect "simple dependencies"',
+>> with a related bugfix in e8b43825 "Force %depends_exact to lower case".
+>>
+>> Performance impact: Test 2 above takes 0.2s longer to rebuild (probably
+>> from all the calls to lc, which are, however, necessary for correctness)
+>> and has indistinguishable performance for a refresh.
+>>
+>> Test 1 took about 6 minutes to rebuild and 1:25 to refresh; those are
+>> pessimistic figures, since I've added 90 more photos and 90 more pages
+>> (both to the wiki as a whole, and the number touched before refreshing)
+>> since testing the previous version of this branch. --[[smcv]]
+
+> Also I think there may be little optimisation value left in
+> 7227c2debfeef94b35f7d81f42900aa01820caa3, since the "regular" dependency
+> lists will be much shorter.
+
+>> You're probably right, but IMO it's not worth reverting it - a set (hash with
+>> dummy values) is still the right data structure. --[[smcv]]
+
+> Sounds like inline pagenames has an already exstant bug WRT
+> pages moving, which this should not make worse. Would be good to verify.
+
+>> If you mean the standard "add a better match for a link-like construct" bug
+>> that also affects sidebar, then yes, it does have the bug, but I'm pretty
+>> sure this branch doesn't make it any worse. I could solve this at the cost
+>> of making pagenames less useful for interactive use, by making it not
+>> respect [[ikiwiki/subpage/LinkingRules]], but instead always interpret
+>> its paths as relative to the top of the wiki - that's actually all that
+>> [[plugins/contrib/album]] needs. --[[smcv]]
+
+> Re coding, it would be nice if `refresh()` could avoid duplicating
+> the debug message, etc in the two cases. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Fixed in commit f805d566 "Avoid duplicating debug message..." --[[smcv]]