From 4a958e0c1e1d3f49c665c5d4aa89214ecbd61bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tschwinge Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:58:04 -0400 Subject: My thoughts. --- doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn index eddce79b4..ccb7634e5 100644 --- a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn @@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ offending change. --[[Joey]] I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]] + +On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting +the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information +content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But +having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly) +time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]] -- cgit v1.2.3