The new internal page feature is designed for something like
[[plugins/aggregate]].

How to transition to it though? inlines of aggregated content would need to
change their pagespecs to use `internal()`.

> [[patch]] in git://git.debian.org/git/users/smcv/ikiwiki.git, branch "aggregate"; [see also gitweb](http://git.debian.org/?p=users/smcv/ikiwiki.git;a=commit;h=01d7ae803710bb0d84fc8d172fd98fd57fb77e9d). --smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk
> Migration is a two-step process: first change all your pagespecs to use `internal()`, then add `internalize="yes"` to all your aggregate invocations. --smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk

> Thanks for working on this.
> 
> I see one problem, if internalize is flipped on and there are existing
> aggregated pages, htmlfn will not return the right filename for those
> pages when expiring them. Seems that `$was_internal` (or just the full
> source filename) should be recorded on a per-guid basis. Could you do
> that?
> 
> I'm weighing the added complexity of having an internalize option
> (which people would have to add, and would probably forget), with just
> making aggregate create all new pages as internal, and having a flag day
> where all inlines and other uses of aggregated pages have to change
> pagespecs to use `isinternal()`.
> 
> There are real bugs that are fixed by making
> aggregated plugins internal, including:
> - Avoids web edits to aggregated pages. (Arguably a security hole;
>   though they can be locked..)
> - Significant speed improvements.
> - Less disk use.
> 
> If internal has to be manually enabled, people will forget to. I'd rather
> not have to worry about these bugs in the future. So, I'm thinking flag
> day. --[[Joey]]

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