dependency inheritance considered scary, although my branch might help
authorSimon McVittie <smcv@ http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/>
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:08:38 +0000 (19:08 +0100)
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@ http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/>
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:08:38 +0000 (19:08 +0100)
doc/bugs/nested_raw_included_inlines.mdwn

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@@ -24,3 +24,11 @@ In my real world situation, page1 is actually listing all pages that match a cer
 Whenever a page got tagged, it will appear on page1 but not on page0.
 
 Am I missing something? Is this a bug or Ikiwiki not supposed to support this use case?
+
+> Perhaps the inline plugin isn't being clever enough about dependencies -
+> strictly speaking, when a page is inlined with full content, the inlining
+> page should probably inherit all the inlined page's dependencies.
+> That might be prohibitively slow in practise due to the way IkiWiki
+> currently merges pagespecs, though - maybe the patches I suggested for
+> [[separating_and_uniquifying_pagespecs|todo/should_optimise_pagespecs]]
+> would help? --[[smcv]]