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diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index bdad67f60..70b5fb4d4 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn @@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ Downsides here: > the new and old html. If there is a difference, then mark that page as having changed. If there is no difference > then you don't need to mark that pages as changed, even though it has been rebuilt. (This would ignore pages in meta-data that don't > cause changes in html, but I don't think that is a huge issue.) + +>> That is a good idea. I will have to look at it to see if the overhead of +>> reading back in the html of every page before building actually is a +>> win though. So far, I've focused on avoiding unnecessary rebuilds, and +>> there is still some room for more dependency types doing so. +>> (Particularly for metadata dependencies..) --[[Joey]] + > * The second comment I have relates to cycles in transitive dependencies. At the moment I don't think this is > possible, but with some additions it may well become so. This could be problematic as it could lead to a) > updates that never complete, or b) it being theoretically unclear what the final result should be (i.e. you @@ -83,3 +90,5 @@ Downsides here: > two pages that include each other), you might want to put a limit on the number of times you'll rebuild a page in any > given run of ikiwiki. Say, only allow a page to rebuild twice on any run, regardless of whether a page it depends on changes. > This is not a perfect solution, but would be a good approximation. -- [[Will]] + +>> Ikiwiki only builds any given output file once per run, already. --[[Joey]] |